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- Incorporating landscape heterogeneity into multi-objective spatial planning improves biodiversity conservation of semi-natural grasslands
- Source: Journal for Nature Conservation
- Author(s): Annika Harlio, Mikko Kuussaari, Risto K. Heikkinen, Anni Arponen
- Abstract: Recent actions to mitigate biodiversity loss in agricultural environments appear insufficient despite the considerable efforts channeled…
- Asian elephants may lose up to 42 percent of suitable habitats in India and Nepal
- Protecting and expanding suitable habitats for wildlife is key to the conservation of endangered species, but owing to climate and land use change the ideal habitats of today may not be fitting in 30 or 50 years. An international team of scientists therefore predicted range shifts of Asian elephants…
- AI empowers conservation biology
- Source: Nature
- Author(s): Roberta Kwok
- Faced with mountains of image and audio data, researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to answer pressing ecological questions.
- Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios
- Source: Nature Climate Change
- Authors: Ryan P. Powers and Walter Jetz
- Abstract: Habitat transformations caused by human land-use change are considered major drivers of ongoing biodiversity loss and their impact on biodiversity is expected to increase further this century. Here, we used global decadal land-use projections to year 2070 for a range of shared socioeconomic pathways, which are linked to particular representative concentration pathways…
- Embracing diverse worldviews to share planet Earth
- Source: Conservation Biology
- Authors: Florent Kohler, Timothy G. Holland, Janne S. Kotiaho et al.
- Abstract: Leading societies toward a more sustainable, equitably shared, and environmentally just future requires elevating and strengthening conversations on the non‐material and perhaps unquantifiable values of non‐human nature to humanity. Debates among conservationists relating to the appropriateness…
- Marine heatwaves threaten global biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services
- Source: Nature Climate Change
- Authors: Dan Smale, Thomas Wernberg, Eric Oliver et al.
- Abstract: The global ocean has warmed substantially over the past century, with far-reaching implications for marine ecosystems1. Concurrent with long-term persistent warming, discrete periods of extreme regional ocean warming (marine heatwaves, MHWs) have increased in frequency2. Here we quantify trends and attributes of MHWs across all ocean basins and examine their biological impacts from species to ecosystems…
- Marine protected areas enhance coral reef functioning by promoting fish biodiversity
- Source: Conservation Letters
- Authors: Zachary M. Topor, Douglas B. Rasher, J. Emmett Duffy, Simon J. Brandl
- Abstract: Preserving biodiversity and ecosystem function in the Anthropocene is one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Ecosystem‐based management and area closures are considered an effective way to maintain ecological processes, especially in marine systems. Although there is strong evidence that such…
- The current application of ecological connectivity in the design of marine protected areas
- Source: Global Ecology and Conservation
- Author(s): Arieanna C. Balbar, Anna Metaxas
- Abstract: Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an area-based conservation strategy commonly used to safeguard marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ecological connectivity…
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