In Nairobi National Park, Kenya, a lioness faces the buildings of a large city looming on the horizon. This is the picture what has chosen Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences, to illustrate his one dated February 14.
In this issue, the multidisciplinary peer-reviewed weekly “explore how human encroachment [sur les terres sauvages] and climate change are actively affecting global ecosystems and biodiversity on temporal and spatial scales”.
Over a long series of articles, the journal – equal in prestige to its elders Science et Nature – highlights the use of historical and paleontological data to describe how plant and animal communities have responded to environmental disturbances in the past.
The objective: to provide information on the efforts to be made to conserve current biodiversity. In the introductory article, Jenny McGuirefrom the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, reminds us of the importance of developing “new more flexible conservation strategies, which facilitate the adaptation of ecosystems to changes and which integrate all local stakeholders”.
