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- Testing the presence of marine protected areas against their ability to reduce pressures on biodiversity
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Simone L. Stevenson Skipton N. C. Woolley Jon Barnett Piers Dunstan
- Marine protected areas (MPAs) are the preferred tool for preventing marine biodiversity loss, as reflected in international protected area targets. Concerns have been raised that opposition from resource users is driving MPAs into low‐pressure areas while high‐use areas remain unprotected,…
- Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers
- Source: Nature
- Author(s): Sebastian Seibold et al
- Analyses of a dataset of arthropod biomass, abundance and diversity in grassland and forest habitats in Germany for the period 2008–2017 reveal that drivers of arthropod declines act at the landscape level.
- Ecological resilience of Arctic marine food webs to climate change
- Source: Nature Climate Change
- Author(s): Gary P. Griffith et al
- The resilience of a marine food web to climate change is investigated through a combination of multiple and nested species interactions. The Kongsfjorden food web adapts and maintains core ecological processes during…
- Habitat degradation and indiscriminate hunting differentially impact faunal communities in the Southeast Asian tropical biodiversity hotspot
- Source: Communications Biology
- Author(s): Andrew Tilker et al
- Habitat degradation and hunting have caused the widespread loss of larger vertebrate species (defaunation) from tropical biodiversity hotspots…
- Arctic loses carbon as winters wane
- Source: Nature Climate Change
- Author(s): John L. Campbell
- Warming in the Arctic is causing soils to decompose more rapidly, even during winter…
- Quantifying how changing mangrove cover affects ecosystem carbon storage in coastal wetlands
- Source: Ecology
- Author(s): Sean P. Charles et al
- Despite overall global declines, mangroves are expanding into and within many subtropical wetlands, leading to heterogeneous cover of marsh‐mangrove coastal vegetation communities near the poleward edge of mangroves’ ranges. Coastal wetlands are globally important carbon sinks, yet the effects…
- Data Integration for Large-Scale Models of Species Distributions
- Source: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Author(s): Nick J.B. Isaac et al
- With the expansion in the quantity and types of biodiversity data being collected, there is a need to find ways to combine these different sources to provide cohesive summaries of species’ potential and realized distributions in space and time. Recently, model-based data integration has emerged as a…
- Carbon bomb: Study says climate impact from loss of intact tropical forests grossly underreported
- Source: Science Advances
- Author(s): Sean L. Maxwell et al
- A new study says that carbon impacts from the loss of intact tropical forests has been grossly underreported.
- Land restoration in Ethiopia pays off but climate change necessitates many strategies
- Source: Land Degradation & Development
- Author(s): Wuletawu Abera et al
- In the last decade, Ethiopia has invested more than US $1.2 billion annually in restoring landscapes in several regions of the country. Research takes stock of Ethiopia’s major restoration projects and investigates their impact on ecosystem services. Researchers say their work can help policymakers tailor…
- In Southeast Asia, illegal hunting is a more threat to wildlife than forest degradation
- Source: Communications Biology
- Author(s): Andrew Tilker et al
- A new study suggests that for ground dwelling mammal and bird communities, illegal hunting using indiscriminate snares may be a more immediate threat than forest degradation through selective logging.
- Mapping global biodiversity change
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Shane A. Blowes et al
- A new study which focuses on mapping biodiversity change in marine and land ecosystems shows that loss of biodiversity is most prevalent in the tropic, with changes in marine ecosystems outpacing those on land.
- A global view of aspen: Conservation science for widespread keystone systems
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Paul C. Rogers et al
- Across the northern hemisphere, six species of aspen (Populus spp.) play a disproportionately important role in promoting biodiversity, sequestering carbon, limiting forest disturbances, and providing other ecosystem services…
- Increasing effectiveness of the science-policy interface in the socioecological arena in Brazil
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Fabio R. Scarano et al
- This paper describes BPBES’s principles, design, routine practices, outputs, achievements, challenges, near-future perspectives, and costs…
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