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Special Issue: Biodiversity and Climate Change in India - Sustainable Development Perspective
The ongoing climate change is unequivocally anthropogenic and—together with other drivers like deforestation, land degradation, biological invasion, etc.—has resulted in species losses and shifts in landscap...
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Special Issue: Cultural Forests for Landscape-Scale Biodiversity Conservation
Cultural forests can be defined as forests presenting features resulting from human influence overtime in terms of density, species composition, vertical and horizontal structure, resulting from past managem...
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Special Issue: Transformative change
The Transformative Change Assessment of IPBES will examine how better biodiversity conservation and sustainable use, ecosystem service delivery and restoration can be achieved, considering the totality of th...
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Topical Collection: Biodiversity Appreciation and Engagement
This collection of articles explores the role of botanic gardens, wildlife parks and zoos, etc.; citizen science projects, ecotourism, education, nature trails, and public perception. Keep up with the latest...
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Topical Collection: Biodiversity Exploitation and Use
This collection of articles covers bioprospecting, bush meat, ethnobiology, fishing, food, medicinal plants, Nagoya Protocol, traditional uses, timber trade, and wildlife trade. Keep up with the latest Biodi...
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Topical Collection: Biodiversity Legal Instruments and Regulations
This collection of articles covers CITES, Convention on Biological Diversity, Nagoya and other protocols, and IUCN Red Lists; regulation of exports, fishing, hunting, imports, quarantine, wildlife trade, and...
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Topical Collection: Biodiversity Protection and Reserves
This collection of articles covers criteria for reserve and protected area selection and establishment, from national parks and biosphere reserves to local nature reserves; effectiveness of Red Lists, Natura...
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Topical Collection: Bioindication
This collection of articles covers the use of organisms of all kinds as indicators of pollutant levels, habitat disturbance, and ecological continuity; also value and application of surrogates for estimates ...
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Topical Collection: Coastal and Marine Biodiversity
This collection of articles covers shores, open sea, deep sea, coral reefs, estuaries, and associated organisms; plankton to fish and cetaceans, seaweeds and other algae; and factors such as marine pollution...
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Topical Collection: Ex-situ Conservation
This collection of articles covers conservation of biodiversity of all kinds outside natural habitats, including botanic gardens, zoos, wildlife parks, aquaria, microbial resource centres, and sed ad tissue ...
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Topical Collection: Extreme Environments
This collection of articles covers arctic, alpine, and Antarctic habitat biodiversity, also biodiversity of arid lands, cold deserts, hot deserts, rock surfaces, and caves; thermophilic and xerophilic organi...
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Topical Collection: Forest and Plantation Biodiversity
This collection of articles covers biodiversity of forests of all kinds, natural and planted, and habitats within them; boreal, temperate, tropical, and mangroves, and organisms within them and on wood, incl...
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Topical Collection: Freshwater
This collection of articles covers biodiversity of organisms of all kinds in and associated with freshwater, in ponds, lakes, and rivers; including diatoms, fish, invertebrates, and aquatic plants; also effe...
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Topical Collection: Invasive Species
This collection of articles covers impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem, aliens, colonization, competition, diseases, imports, deliberate and accidental introductions, pests, and weeds. Keep up with the lat...
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Topical Collection: Phylogeography
This collection of articles covers molecular studies revealing patterns of speciation, genetic variation within species and species complexes, especially when of value as case studies and where there are imp...
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Topical Collection: Urban Biodiversity
This collection of articles covers gardens, parks, urban green spaces, roadside trees, walls, roof-tops; introduced species, parks, towns, urban habitats, walls, wildlife corridors. Keep up with the latest B...
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