Human welfare is significantly linked to ecosystem services such as the suppression of pest
insects by birds and bats. However, effects of biocontrol services on tropical cash crop yield …

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem
functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield–related ecosystem services can be …

The global scientific community has become increasingly diverse over recent decades, but
is this ongoing development also reflected among top‐publishing authors and potential …

Understanding distribution patterns and multitrophic interactions is critical for managing bat‐
and bird‐mediated ecosystem services such as the suppression of pest and non‐pest …

The idea that noncrop habitat enhances pest control and represents a win–win opportunity
to conserve biodiversity and bolster yields has emerged as an agroecological paradigm. …

The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting all parts of human society. Like everyone else,
conservation biologists are concerned first with how the pandemic will affect their families, friends, …

Biodiversity-friendly management is pivotal for sustainable agriculture, but rarely put into
practice by farmers despite mounting evidence of the social, environmental, and economic …

Biological Conservation recently rejected a paper because we regarded the killing of
thousands of 43 vertebrates in a protected area as unnecessary and inappropriate. The authors …

Animals provide services such as pollination and pest control in cacao agroforestry systems,
but also disservices. Yet, their combined contributions to crop yield and fruit loss are mostly …

Intensification in land-use and farming practices has had largely negative effects on bats,
leading to population declines and concomitant losses of ecosystem services. Current trends in …