Conserving biodiversity coldspots: recent calls to direct conservation funding to the world's biodiversity hotspots may be bad investment advice.

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A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions (2009, background): “Finally, in an era characterized by climate change and the loss of important biological and socioeconomic functions of ecosystems (65, 66), halting or even reversing these developments should be an equally important target of a global conservation strategy.”
Decline in a dominant invertebrate species contributes to altered carbon cycling in a low‐diversity soil ecosystem (2008, background): “Yet, ecosystems with low species and functional diversity may be equally or more vulnerable to global change (Kareiva & Marvier, 2003; Bohn & Amundsen, 2004; Newsham & Garstecki, 2007).”
Optimal design of agricultural landscapes for pollination services (2008, background): “At present, however, there is little understanding of how to design ecosystem service projects in a spatially explicit and economically efficient manner (Kareiva & Marvier 2003; Kremen 2005; Kremen & Ostfeld 2005).”