The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) became the second open-access peer-reviewed scholarly title to make use of the hosted portals service provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF ...

What if some of the most important clues about marine biodiversity were already collected but never fully shared? That's the ...

Guangzhou, China: As the global population hits 8 billion and planetary biodiversity faces unprecedented decline, the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, launches the ...

Cattle ranching is the biggest driver of tropical deforestation, but it is also a key livelihood for nearly 1 billion ...

Researchers have developed a framework that can help scientists understand trends in biodiversity by using data from well-characterized species to provide insights on data-deficient species. The ...

New research shows that by simply counting the diversity of flowers, we can estimate how rich a grassland is in species of ...

The productivity of cacao trees decreases with time, forcing farmers to renew their plantations by either cutting down the old trees or establishing a new crop elsewhere. Frequently, new plantations ...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity is an online-only journal that will publish authoritative, accessible and agenda-setting Reviews, Perspectives and commentary across all areas of conservation, ecology and ...

With more than a third of their materials sourced from land-based ecosystems, fashion, textile and apparel companies play a key role in protecting biodiversity. That’s the key finding of the Textile ...

But much of its biodiversity remains poorly studied. Research from the continent contributes to less than 1% to global ...

By Mino Rakotovao Conservation biologist Dimby Raharinjanahary spent years walking through Madagascar’s forests, counting ...