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- Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Pedro Cardoso et al
- Here we build on the manifesto ‘World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity, issued by the Alliance of World Scientists. As a group of conservation biologists deeply concerned about the decline of insect populations…
- Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Michael J. Samways et al
- The fate of humans and insects intertwine, especially through the medium of plants. Global environmental change, including land transformation and contamination, is causing concerning insect diversity loss, articulated in the companion review Scientists‘ warning to humanity on insect extinctions.
- Deforestation and Connectivity among Protected Areas of Tanzania
- Source: Forests
- Author(s): Belachew Gizachew, Jonathan Rizzi, Deo D. Shirima, and Eliakimu Zahabu
- Protected Areas (PAs) in Tanzania had been established originally for the goal of habitat, landscape and biodiversity conservation…
- Options for managing human threats to high seas biodiversity
- Source: Ocean & Coastal Management
- Author(s): Bethan C. O’Leary et al
- Areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) constitute 61% of the world’s oceans and are collectively managed by countries under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)…
- Grasses continue to trump trees at soil carbon sequestration following herbivore exclusion in a semi‐arid African savanna
- Source: Ecology
- Author(s): Benjamin J. Wigley, David J. Augustine, Corli Coetsee, Jayashree Ratnam, Mahesh Sankaran
- While studies have shown that mammalian herbivores often limit aboveground carbon storage in savannas, their effects on belowground soil carbon storage remains unclear…
- Mapping hotspots of potential ecosystem fragility using commonly available spatial data
- Source: Biological Conservation,
- Author(s): Alexandre Génin, Steven R. Lee, Eric L. Berlow, Steven M. Ostoja, Sonia Kéfi
- Effective conservation requires prioritizing areas that are vulnerable to large, irreversible changes. Unfortunately, rigorously documenting…
- Giant Panda National Park, a step towards streamlining protected areas and cohesive conservation management in China
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Qiongyu Huang, Yuxiang Fei, Hongbo Yang, Xiaodong Gu, Melissa Songer
- The Chinese government recently finalized a plan to establish a Giant Panda National Park in 2020, one of the first national parks in the..
- Inferring the extinction of species known only from a single specimen
- Source: Oryx
- Author(s): David L. Roberts, Ivan Jarić
- Many species are poorly known, with the sum of our knowledge represented by specimens in museums. For assessment of conservation status the most enigmatic and challenging species are probably those known only from a single specimen.
- Seasonal variation in Arctic marine mammal acoustic detection in the northern Bering Sea
- Source: Marine Mammal Science
- Author(s): Emily Chou et al.
- Declines in Arctic sea ice cover are influencing the distribution of protected endemic marine mammals, many of which are important for local Indigenous Peoples, and increasing the presence of potentially disruptive industrial activities.
- The gathering storm: optimizing management of coastal ecosystems in the face of a climate-driven threat
- Source: Annals of Botany
- Author(s): Mick E. Hanley, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Hannah L. Mossman
- New research suggests the impact of rising sea levels and the increased frequency and intensity of extreme storm events on coastal plants needs to be placed in greater focus.
- A major threat to a unique ecosystem
- Source: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
- Author(s): Nicolás Battini Alejandro Bortolus
- Along the Atlantic shore of northern Patagonia there is a rare hard‐ bottom ecosystem known as rocky marsh, representing a unique and striking environmental intersection…
- Global reforestation and biodiversity conservation
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Krista M.S. Kemppinen et al.
- The loss of forest habitat is a leading cause of species extinction, and reforestation is one of two established interventions for reversing this loss. However, the role of reforestation for biodiversity conservation remains debated, and lacking is an assessment of the potential contribution…
- Identifying conservation priorities in a defaunated tropical biodiversity hotspot
- Source: Diversity and Distributions
- Author(s): Andrew Tilker et al.
- Widespread poaching in tropical biodiversity hotspots is causing unprecedented declines in wildlife populations, known as defaunation. A new study provides evidence that…
- Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw
- Source: Nature Geoscience
- Author(s): Merritt R. Turetsky
- Abrupt thawing of permafrost will double previous estimates of potential carbon emissions from permafrost thaw in the Arctic, and is already rapidly changing the…
- Climate change contributes to widespread declines among bumble bees across continents
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Peter Soroye1, Tim Newbold, Jeremy Kerr
- Climate change could increase species’extinction risk as temperatures and precipitation begin to exceedspecies’historically observed tolerances.
- Strengthening the synergies among global biodiversity targets to reconcile conservation and socio‐economic demands
- Source: Aquatic Conservation / Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems
- Author(s): Ciro C. Vilar, Rafael A. Magris, Rafael Loyola, Jean‐Christophe Joyeux
- In this paper, Aichi Targets 11 and 12 were simultaneously addressed using Brazil’s exclusive economic zone as an example. Priority areas for expanding the current system of marine protected areas within
- Shaping the Fate of Life on Earth: The Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
- Source: Global Policy
- Author(s): Walter R. Erdelen
- Loss of biological diversity continues at alarming rates, despite valiant UN efforts aided by the international community. The 2010 Target for biodiversity has been missed. The Aichi Targets, adopted in 2010, may also not be met by their timeline of 2020. The Convention on Biological Diversity…
- Global protected areas boost the carbon sequestration capacity: Evidences from econometric causal analysis
- Source: Science of the Total Environment
- Author(s): Hong Shi et al.
- The assessment of the carbon sequestration capacity dynamic with protected areas is of great significance to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- Towards a global understanding of the drivers of marine and terrestrial biodiversity
- Source: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
- Author(s): Tyler O. Gagné et al.
- Here we compiled data for over 67,000 marine and terrestrial species and used artificial neural networks to model species richness with the state…
- Blue carbon conservation in West Africa: a first assessment of feasibility
- Source: Journal of Coastal Conservation
- Author(s): Tanya Bryan et al.
- This study aims to provide a first step toward increasing the knowledge of the region’s blue carbon stocks, with a focus on mangroves, and of their financial value based on their carbon storage benefit alone.
- The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning
- Source: Nature Communications
- Author(s): Brian J. Enquist, Andrew J. Abraham, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Yadvinder Malhi, Christopher E. Doughty
- A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive framework for the sensitivity of megabiota during times of rapid…
- Help restore Brazil’s governance of globally important ecosystem services
- Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution
- Author(s): Carolina Levis et al.
- Brazil is a country with an immense responsibility towards humanity. First, because it contains the largest portion of the…
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