Conservation-Oriented Restoration of Particular Systems

TL;DR: 10 areas that, a) are characterised by exceptional concentrations of species with high levels of endemism and b) are experiencing unusually rapid rates of depletion are identified, so conservationists can engage in a more systematised response to the challenge of largescale extinctions impending in tropical forests.

TL;DR: The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 (FRA 2015) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FRA 2015 was based on responses to surveys by individual countries using a common reporting framework, agreed definitions and reporting standards as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: New work documents the uneven, highly clumped distribution of vulnerable species on the Earth, and pinpoints 25 so-called ‘biodiversity hotspots’, which should enable resources for conservation to be better focused.

TL;DR: Theoretical, empirical and statistical developments in the study of Species abundance distributions are reviewed and it is optimistic that SADs can provide significant insights into basic and applied ecological science.