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- Accelerating the monitoring of global biodiversity: Revisiting the sampled approach to generating Red List Indices
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Author(s): Sérgio Henriques et al
- Given the current biodiversity crisis, pragmatic approaches to detect global conservation trends across a broad range of taxa are critical. A sampled approach to the Red List Index (RLI) was proposed, as many groups are highly speciose…
- Evaluating and expanding the European Union’s protected‐area network toward potential post‐2020 coverage targets
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Anke Müller, Uwe A Schneider, Kerstin Jantke
- Greater ecoregion‐protection targets for post‐2020 biodiversity frameworks warrant discussion.
- Set a global target for ecosystems
- Source: Nature
- Author(s): James EM Watson et al
- The conservation community must be able to track countries’ progress in protecting wetlands, reefs, forests and more, argue James Watson and colleagues…
- Using local ecological knowledge to improve large terrestrial mammal surveys, build local capacity and increase conservation opportunities
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Micaela Camino et al.
- Field information is essential for developing conservation actions, but standard methods for surveying wildlife are often inefficient in large, remote areas. Without efficient methods, surveying is…
- Tropical snake diversity collapses after widespread amphibian loss
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Elise F. Zipkin, Graziella V. DiRenzo, Julie M. Ray, Sam Rossman, Karen R. Lips
- A new study should sound alarm bells regarding the ‘biodiversity crisis’ or the loss of wildlife around the world.
- The environmental consequences of climate-driven agricultural frontiers
- Source: Plos One
- Author(s): Lee Hannah et al.
- Future farming in regions that were previously unsuitable for agriculture could significantly impact biodiversity, water resources, and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
- Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours
- Source: Journal of Environmental Psychology
- Author(s): Leanne Martin et al.
- Researchers are the first to investigate — within a single study — the contribution of both nature contact and connection to human health, well-being and pro-environmental behaviors.
- Protecting redundancy in the food web helps ensure ecological resilience
- Source: Ecology
- Author(s): Jacob H. Eisaguirre et al.
- Ecosystems are changing at alarming rates due to climate change and a wide variety of other anthropogenic stressors. These stressors have the potential to cause…
- Positioning human heritage at the center of conservation practice
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Robert A. Montgomery, Kendi Borona, Herbert Kasozi, Tutilo Mudumba, Mordecai Ogada
- Progressive philosophies can derive from ethical integration of local communities in conservation.
- Five lessons to guide more effective biodiversity conservation message framing
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Alexander M. Kusmanoff, Fiona Fidler, Ascelin Gordon, Georgia E. Garrard, Sarah A. Bekessy
- Because the conservation of biodiversity is a social and political process, conservation policies are more effective if they can create shifts in…
- The Caribbean needs big marine protected areas
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Austin J. Gallagher
- Governments must provide larger spatial protections in the Greater Caribbean for threatened, highly migratory species such as sharks, is the call from a diverse group…
- Interrelated ecological impacts of climate change on an apex predator
- Source: Ecological Applications
- Author(s): Kristin L. Laidre et al.
- Bears in Baffin Bay are getting thinner and adult females are having fewer cubs than when sea ice was more available.
- Recent responses to climate change reveal the drivers of species extinction and survival
- Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Author(s): Cristian Román-Palacios, John J. Wiens
- Researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate the loss of plant and animal species by 2070. Their results suggest…
- Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Miguel Berdugo et al.
- A study finds for the first time that as levels of aridity increase due to climate change, abrupt changes are experienced on dryland ecosystems.
- Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation
- Source: Marine Policy
- Author(s): Siân E. Rees et al.
- Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are accepted as an important tool for the restoration and maintenance of marine ecosystem structure, function, health and ecosystem integrity through…
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