Natural History Museum

Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

The time is now For decades, scientists have been raising calls for societal changes that will reduce our impacts on nature. Though much conservation has occurred, our natural e...

Poleward shifts in geographical ranges of butterfly species associated with regional warming

Validation of species–climate impact models under climate change

Abstract Increasing concern over the implications of climate change for biodiversity has led to the use of species–climate envelope models to project species extinction risk und...

Would climate change drive species out of reserves? An assessment of existing reserve‐selection methods

Abstract Concern for climate change has not yet been integrated in protocols for reserve selection. However if climate changes as projected, there is a possibility that current ...

Selecting areas for species persistence using occurrence data

Standardized benchmarking in the quest for orthologs

Achieving high accuracy in orthology inference is essential for many comparative, evolutionary and functional genomic analyses, yet the true evolutionary history of genes is gen...

It's time to work together and stop duplicating conservation efforts …

Flagship species, ecological complementarity and conserving the diversity of mammals and birds in sub‐Saharan Africa

Abstract More biodiversity could be protected in situ if the few species that attract the most popular support (the ‘flagship’ species) had distributions that also covered the b...

… following Africa's lead in setting priorities