Insects are threatened from the drivers of global habitat loss and fragamentation.

Insect diversity and conservation have been overlooked across conservation programs.

Poor taxonomy and sampling biases restrict the understanding of diversity patterns.

Erebidae moths are underrepresented across conservation polygons of southern Mexico.

Protected areas are not effectively at preserving hyperdiverse groups.

The global road network is rapidly growing.

Population-level studies represent a minority on road ecology.

Most of them focused large mammals from high-income countries.

More research on threatened species from developing countries is need.

Long-term (>4.2 years) contamination and ecological risks of the Rio Doce estuary.

Sediment metal(loid)s concentrations support a continued potential adverse biological effect.

Despite a decrease in metal(loid)s concentration, the chronic contamination is still above reference values.

The Rio Doce estuary works as a sink for tailings and a source of toxic metal(loid)s.

Environmental diversity efficiently represents marine mammal diversity.

Environmental diversity is an effective abiotic surrogate for biodiversity conservation.

Environmental variables can be effectively used in marine biodiversity conservation.

Detection method information is absent in 38% of deer records in protected areas.

Most of the records (60%) used unsuitable methods for deer species identification.

Forest deer species are the most impacted regarding unreliable identification.

Greater scientific rigor on data acquisition is necessary for conservation planning.

Review of peer-reviewed literature on biodiversity conservation in insular Caribbean between 2000 and 2015.

On a per year base, Caribbean-based authors found in 32% of papers, accounted for 22% of lead paper authorships, represented 17% of authors per paper.

No evidence of improvement in the above metrics over time.

Marked differences in paper contributions among Caribbean locations, with evidence of low intra-regional collaboration.

The expansion of bat habitat generalists coupled with range contraction of bat habitat specialist will homogenize the Neotropical bat communities.

Warm-adapted bat species might expand their ranges towards higher altitudes, while mountain-top specialists will run out of suitable climate.

Monitoring programs will be important to track species that are predicted to become extinct and also the projected range expansion of sanguivorous bats.

The most effective way to protect Neotropical bat species will be increasing landscape connectivity and safeguarding the refugia highlighted here.

Ryegrass promotion sites (through the application of herbicide glyphosate) had lower vegetation cover <10 cm than other grazing sites.

Structure of bird communities varied among management treatments.

Ryegrass promotion sites had a negative effect on nearctic migrants.

Understanding ecological processes are benefitial for wildlife conservation.

We used Maxent ecological niche modeling to quantify habitat suitability of invasive plant species (IPS).

Functional trait context dependence could affect suitable habitat distributions of IPS across different biomes.

We suggested to use community mean functional traits to predict suitable habitat distributions of IPS.

Global climate and land-use changes will have a serious impact on individual species and communities of hummingbirds.

Existing protected areas showed an important reduction of surface across the species distribution and hotspot areas for future.

A large proportion of “safe places” does not match the areas targeted for agriculture expansion in future scenarios.

It is imperative that policy-makers promote policies that are resilient to both threats as soon as possible.

Pollinators not yet reported as crop pollinators could likely contribute to agriculture.

The neglected diversity of bees as potential crop pollinators in Brazil is 88.4%.

The proportion of vertebrate pollinators not yet recorded as pollinating crops is 95.2%.

Many plant–pollinator interactions are off the conservation agenda for agricultural stability.

Efforts to protect agricultural pollinators should consider even species not yet recorded as crop pollinators.