Quantitative scenarios are coming of age as a tool for evaluating the impact of future
socioeconomic development pathways on biodiversity and ecosystem services. We analyze global …

Global biodiversity change is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
Here, we review current scientific knowledge on global biodiversity change and identify the …

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) introduced a new framework for analyzing
social–ecological systems that has had wide influence in the policy and scientific communities. …

After initially containing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2),
many European and Asian countries had a resurgence of COVID-19 consistent with a large …

Vibratory ball milling is shown to have a strong influence on the shape of FT-IR spectra of
wood and cellulose, even if the samples are milled for only a short time. The results show that …

The genus Xanthomonas is a diverse and economically important group of bacterial
phytopathogens, belonging to the γ-subdivision of the Proteobacteria. Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. …

Xylella fastidiosa is a fastidious, xylem-limited bacterium that causes a range of economically
important plant diseases. Here we report the complete genome sequence of X. fastidiosa …

Reducing the rate of biodiversity loss and averting dangerous biodiversity change are
international goals, reasserted by the Aichi Targets for 2020 by Parties to the United Nations (UN) …

In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological
Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade. We …

Background Cardiac muscle hypercontractility is a key pathophysiological abnormality in
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and a major determinant of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract (…