Researchers should move from characterising factors impacting scientific evidence use to identifying and testing interventions to facilitate its use by conservation decision makers. Since these facto....

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 25 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00108-yAlthough long neglected in biodiversity conservation policy, the importance of soil biodiversity is now recognized by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. This Perspective describes this important policy breakthrough and offers strategies to build on it for successful monitoring and conservation outcomes.

Soil biodiversity remains one of the least systematically studied components of global biodiversity, largely invisible in policy agendas. A coordinated soil biodiversity monitoring approach is urgent...

ABSTRACT The diversity of organisms is one of the most fundamental questions in sciences. Here,...

The effective conservation of soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in the face of global-change threats requires improvements in national monitoring. We outline the Global Soil Biodiversity Observ...

Knowledge and data on the current function, future threats, and benefits of peatlands in Canada are required to support evidence-based decision-making to ensure they continue to provide critical ecosy...

We use stacking, an ensemble learning technique designed to mitigate overfitting, to estimate peat depth in the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL) The average peat depth of HBL is 184 (±48) cm with 90% of...