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- Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective
- Source: Science
- Author(s): Gregory N. Bratman et al.
- Abstract: A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial decisions must be made about how to preserve and enhance opportunities for nature experience. Here, we first provide…
- Vertebrate biodiversity on indigenous-managed lands in Australia, Brazil, and Canada equals that in protected areas
- Source: Environmental Science & Policy
- Author(s): Richard Schuster et al.
- Abstract: Declines in global biodiversity due to land conversion and habitat loss are driving a ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ and many countries fall short of meeting even nominal targets for land protection…
- Towards a unified framework for connectivity that disentangles movement and mortality in space and time
- Source: Ecology Letters
- Author(s): Robert J. Fletcher et al.
- Abstract: Predicting connectivity, or how landscapes alter movement, is essential for understanding the scope for species persistence with environmental change. Although it is well known that movement is risky…
- Identifying transboundary conservation priorities in a biodiversity hotspot of China and Myanmar: Implications for data poor mountainous regions
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Yin Yang et al.
- Abstract: Difficult to study species that inhabit inaccessible terrain, present significant challenges in obtaining accurate ecological, distributional, and conservation information…
- Meeting caribou in the alpine: Do moose compete with caribou for food?
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Virginie Christopherson et al.
- Abstract: The Atlantic-Gaspésie caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) is an endangered, isolated population that has been declining for decades in response to intensive logging…
- A new wilderness for Central Europe? — The potential for large strictly protected forest reserves in Germany
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Sebastian Brackhane, Nicolas Schoof, Albert Reif, Christine B. Schmitt
- Abstract: The German National Strategy on Biological Diversity (NBS) aims to establish wilderness areas on 2% of the German terrestrial territory by 2020, however wilderness areas in Germany currently only cover 0.6% of the total land area…
- Landscape context matters for attractiveness and effective use of road underpasses by bats
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Alexis Laforge et al.
- Abstract: The worldwide expansion of road networks is a major concern in biological conservation because of its predominantly negative effects on terrestrial fauna. Roads also affect bats, acting as barriers to movements…
- Perceptions and representations of animal diversity: Where did the insects go?
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Camila Leandro, Pierre Jay-Robert
- Abstract: Insects are everywhere: they represent 73% of the total described fauna, and, being linked to every ecosystem function, they play key roles in biodiversity resilience…
- Dynamics of the giant panda habitat suitability in response to changing anthropogenic disturbance in the Liangshan Mountains
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Cheng Li et al.
- Abstract: Through decades of conservation efforts at the national and worldwide scales, the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) has…
- Integrating citizen science and remotely sensed data to help inform time-sensitive policy decisions for species of conservation concern
- Source: Biological Conservation
- Author(s): Ashley M. Long et al.
- Abstract: The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) uses a Species Status Assessment (SSA) framework to inform Endangered…
- Shark hotspots under worldwide threat from overfishing
- Source: Nature
- Author(s): Nuno Queiroz et al.
- Over 150 scientists from 26 countries combined movement data from nearly 2,000 sharks tracked with satellite tags. Using this tracking information, researchers identified areas of the ocean that were important for multiple species, shark ‘hot spots’, that were located in ocean frontal zones, boundaries…
- Do marine protected areas work?
- Source: Journal of Applied Ecology
- Author(s): Kerry J. Nickols et al.
- A study describes how to use data collected before and after Marine Protected Areas are created to verify that they work.
- Domino effect of species extinctions also damages biodiversity
- Source: Science Advances
- Author(s): Jordi Bascompte et al.
- The mutual dependencies of many plant species and their pollinators mean that the negative effects of climate change are exacerbated. The total number of species threatened with extinction is therefore considerably higher than predicted in previous models, researchers show.
- What drives Yellowstone’s massive elk migrations?
- Source: Global Change Biology
- Author(s): Gregory J. M. Rickbeil et al.
- Yellowstone’s migratory elk rely primarily on environmental cues, including a retreating snowline and the greening grasses of spring, to decide when to make the treks between their winter ranges and summer ranges, researchers show. Their study combined GPS tracking data from more than 400 animals in…
- Why Noah’s Ark won’t work
- Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Author(s): Reid S. Brennan et al.
- Many species will need large population sizes to survive climate change and ocean acidification, a new study finds.
- Elephant extinction will raise carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere
- Source: Nature Geoscience
- Author(s): Fabio Berzaghi et al.
- Forest elephants engineer the ecosystem of the entire central African forest, and their catastrophic decline toward extinction has implications for carbon policy.
- Conservation triage at the trailing edge of climate envelopes
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Author(s): Sophie L. Gilbert et al.
- Article impact statement: Resources should target leading edges of species’ climate envelopes rather than populations at the trailing edge of climate change.
- Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient
- Source: Nature Communications
- Author(s): Viktoriia Radchuk et al.
- Abstract: Biological responses to climate change have been widely documented across taxa and regions, but it remains unclear whether species are maintaining a good match between phenotype and environment…
- Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Author(s): Lucie M. Bland et al.
- Abstract: In 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature adopted the Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) criteria as the global standard for assessing risks to terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. Five years on, it is timely to ask what impact this new initiative has had on ecosystem…
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