The idea that changes in biodiversity can impact how ecosystems function has, over the last quarter century, gone from being a controversial notion to an accept

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

The world is losing species and biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. The causes go deep and the losses are driven by a complex array of social, economic, poli

The Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences address scientific topics of broad and current interest, cutting across the boundaries of tr

The loss of the earth's biological diversity is widely recognized as a critical environmental problem. That loss is most severe in developing countries, where t