Increased efforts are required to prevent further losses to terrestrial biodiversity and the
ecosystem services that it provides 1 , 2 . Ambitious targets have been proposed, such as …

… world, high population growth and regional, relatively slow economic development but with
stabilization target of 8.5 W m −2 image … With stabilization target of 4.4 W m −2 in 2100 image …

Governments have committed to conserving ≥17% of terrestrial and ≥10% of marine
environments globally, especially “areas of particular importance for biodiversity” through “…

The lack of urgent action to reverse biodiversity loss is partly due to the complex nature of
biodiversity as a feature of our planet. Subsequently, policymakers receive an often-confusing …

… Forest cover change was aggregated from their native 30 m × 30 m (900 m 2 ) resolution
pixels to our 50 km × 50 km resolution pixels using Google Earth Engine. For each 50 km × 50 …

Global biodiversity and ecosystem service models typically operate independently.
Ecosystem service projections may therefore be overly optimistic because they do not always …

The diversity of life on Earth—which provides vital services to humanity ( 1 )—stems from
the difference between rates of evolutionary diversification and extinction. Human activities …

Despite substantial progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, major taxonomic and
geographic knowledge gaps remain. Decision makers often rely on expert judgement to fill …

Anthropogenic activities are causing widespread degradation of ecosystems worldwide,
threatening the ecosystem services upon which all human life depends. Improved …

Targets for human development are increasingly connected with targets for nature, however,
existing scenarios do not explicitly address this relationship. Here, we outline a strategy to …