Biodiversity measurement encompasses a suite of quantitative approaches designed to characterise the variety and distribution of life at multiple organisational levels. Traditional metrics—such as ...

Efforts to monitor biodiversity use a multitude of approaches, generate heterogeneous data, and span spatial scales and levels of biological organization from microbial diversity assessed via eDNA to ...

The world's human population is expanding, which means even more agricultural land will be needed to provide food for this growing population. However, choosing which areas to convert is difficult and ...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Challenges and opportunities in the measurement and assessment of biological diversity / Brian J. McGill -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. State of the field -- 1.3.

Halting biodiversity loss requires companies to minimise their negative impact on biodiversity, i.e. their biodiversity footprint. So far, however, biodiversity footprint assessment tools have been in ...

Introduction -- Density : mean and variance -- Normal and sampling distributions for fieldwork -- Confidence limits and intervals for density -- How many field samples? -- Spatial distribution : the ...

At first blush, the idea of biodiversity seems simple enough. It is essentially the variety of all life on Earth. But making sense of biodiversity in a way that can help us halt or even reverse its ...

Leading ecologists have devised a new framework to classify how biodiversity credit operators define what a unit of nature is. The new analysis demonstrates the challenges involved with devising a ...

A recent study published in Ecological Applications examines how certain bird species are coping on 44 privately-owned agricultural sites throughout the state of Iowa. The team used new techniques, ...

Scientists at Lancaster University in partnership with global renewable energy company Low Carbon, aim to shed new light on the impact of solar farms on nature by deploying artificial intelligence (AI ...

The diversity of life on Earth is under threat, but understanding this threat and the actions needed to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis requires measuring biodiversity accurately and ...