“The discovery of Apachyus madseni thus represents a considerable range expansion of Apachyidae, demonstrating that the current distribution of the family is not necessarily indicative of its past ...

The Standing Committee is the governing body of the Bern Convention. The Bureau of the Standing Committee takes administrative and organisational decisions in between meetings of the Standing ...

Over forty years ago, an innovative legal text was adopted to protect Europe’s wild plants and animals. The Council of Europe’s Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats ...

This fundamental study substantially advances our understanding of how habitat fragmentation and climate change jointly influence bird community thermophilization in a fragmented island system. The ...

During the peer-review process the editor and reviewers write an eLife assessment that summarises the significance of the findings reported in the article (on a scale ranging from landmark to useful) ...

Baldwin and Myers used the hand-wing index data and two other independent datasets to calculate new species-area relationships for all 11 recognized biogeographical realms of the world.

They also calculated 248 new species-area relationships representing unique combinations of bird families in biogeographical regions. "We redid our analysis at multiple spatial and taxonomic ...