Reserves, resilience and dynamic landscapes 20 years later: This article belongs to Ambio's 50th Anniversary Collection. Theme: Biodiversity Conservation.

Our article presaged the land-sparing/land-sharing debate, and actually took a stand that included both; reserves are needed but biodiversity management should also include the production ecosystems that are important for ecosystem services. Summary for policymakers of the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. The population/community ecology paradigm was based on evolutionary theory and looked at changes in numbers and diversity, while ecosystems ecology focused on ecosystem processes like flows of energy and nutrients. He also realised the need to understand the role of the "common biodiversity"[3] that provides ecosystem services in production ecosystems. [Extracted from the article]