One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth. However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges...

Nature Communications - Extinction of megafauna is a defining trend of the last 50,000 years. Here, the authors use genomic data to infer population histories of 139 extant megafauna, suggesting...

Botany is disappearing from university modules in the UK.

Landscape reconstruction using pollen data shows that European temperate forests were open and heterogeneous before modern humans.

Large herbivores’ effects on plants depend more on their size and breadth of diet than whether they were introduced or native.

For decades, we believed that outside ice ages Europe was mostly covered by dense forest before the arrival of modern humans. Now, a new study shows that there was far more open and semi-open...

Recent revision of the Piper collections at Aarhus Univ. Herbarium (AAU), collected in Ecuador, revealed specimens of undescribed species and species that were mentioned as endemic in the catalog of...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysing camera trap data from >26,000 stations and >158,000 vegetation plots across 12 ecoregions in India, the authors find a positive relationship...

Report says cutting emissions should still be key priority as it cautions against mass monoculture tree-planting

Nature Communications - Tree species may be vulnerable to multiple global change factors. Here, the authors find that more than 17 thousand tree species are exposed to increasing anthropogenic...

Aim Species occurrence data are valuable information that enables one to estimate geographical distributions, characterize niches and their evolution, and guide spatial conservation planning. Rapid...

Nature Sustainability - Understanding global forces impacting forests is increasingly vital. This study finds that human factors follow climate as the most important factors affecting forest...

Archaeological and paleoecological evidence shows that by 10,000 BCE, all human societies employed varying degrees of ecologically transformative l...

Human hunting, not climate change, played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals over the last 50,000 years. This conclusion comes from researchers at Aarhus University, who reviewed over...

Nu sætter aftaleparterne navne på formanden og medlemmerne i Danmarks første Biodiversitetsråd, der fremover skal rådgive regeringen og Folketinget om indsatser på naturområdet.

Nature Climate Change - In this Perspective, the authors argue that the restoration of wild animals and their functional roles can enhance natural carbon capture and storage. They call for the...

Nature Communications - Extinction of megafauna is a defining trend of the last 50,000 years. Here, the authors use genomic data to infer population histories of 139 extant megafauna, suggesting...

Recent studies uncover cascading ecological effects resulting from removing and reintroducing predators into a landscape, but little is known about...

For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus...

All species have an environmental niche, and despite technological advances, humans are unlikely to be an exception. Here, we demonstrate that for ...

Increased grassland fire activity after megafaunal extinctions suggests that grazer controls on fire operate at continental scales.

Rewilding should be central to the massive restoration efforts needed to overcome the global biodiversity crisis and enhancing the biosphere’s capacity to mitigate climate change. Key elements...

Nature - A quantitative analysis of the impact of species introductions on mutualistic seed-dispersal networks indicates that introduced species are increasingly erasing natural patterns of network...

Article impact statement: From 1998 to 2018, mainland Southeast Asia lost 50% of its lowland forest, including a 50% loss inside protected areas.

More than half of terrestrial mammal food web links have disappeared because of extinction and range contractions.

Nature Sustainability - Understanding global forces impacting forests is increasingly vital. This study finds that human factors follow climate as the most important factors affecting forest...

In a new global study of more than 46,000 species of trees, an international team of researchers has shown that many tree species are under substantial pressure and poorly protected. The research...

Nature Communications - Species that are evolutionary distinct and have geographically narrow or isolated distributions may be in particular need of conservation. Here, the authors identify global...

We analyzed changes in the nationwide occurrence probabilities of 2136 vascular plant species in Germany between 1960 and 2017 on a 5 × 5 km grid cell resolution (e.g., Anagallis tenella L. [top],...

Malhi and colleagues review the impacts of large marine and terrestrial animals on climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Given the rapid, much-needed expansion of restoration and rewilding activities across the world, trait-based ecology offers a pathway to generalisable predictions of the ecosystem impacts of rewild...

Safeguarding Earth’s tree diversity is a conservation priority due to the importance of trees for biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services...

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysing camera trap data from >26,000 stations and >158,000 vegetation plots across 12 ecoregions in India, the authors find a positive relationship...

Find out why Aarhus, Denmark is one of the World’s Greatest Places of 2023.

The wolf is the symbolic animal of Rome, a city founded by two brothers who were raised by a she-wolf - or so the legend goes.

Herbivores and their predators have a major impact on restoration outcomes

More than half of terrestrial mammal food web links have disappeared because of extinction and range contractions.