Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions

OJ Schmitz, M Sylvén, TB Atwood, ES Bakker… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Natural climate solutions are being advanced to arrest climate warming by protecting and
enhancing carbon capture and storage in plants, soils and sediments in ecosystems. These …

Past, present, and future of the Living Planet Index

SEH Ledger, J Loh, R Almond, M Böhm, CF Clements… - npj Biodiversity, 2023 - nature.com
As we enter the next phase of international policy commitments to halt biodiversity loss (eg,
Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework), biodiversity indicators will play an …

First expert elicitation of knowledge on possible drivers of observed increasing human cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Europe

C Saegerman, MF Humblet, M Leandri, G Gonzalez… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a viral disease endemic in Eurasia. The virus is mainly
transmitted to humans via ticks and occasionally via the consumption of unpasteurized milk …

Future changes in society and climate may strongly shape wild large-herbivore faunas across Europe

M Davoli, JC Svenning - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Restoring wild communities of large herbivores is critical for the conservation of biodiverse
ecosystems, but environmental changes in the twenty-first century could drastically affect the …

A shifting carnivore's community: habitat modeling suggests increased overlap between the golden jackal and the Eurasian lynx in Europe

D Serva, M Iannella, V Cittadino… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The European large carnivore community is recently showing positive trends.
Beyond those, other species are expanding in Europe. In recent decades, the golden jackal …

Birds in Europe 4: the fourth assessment of Species of European Conservation Concern

IJ Burfield, CA Rutherford, E Fernando… - Bird Conservation …, 2023 - cambridge.org
This is the fourth comprehensive assessment of the population status of all wild bird species
in Europe. It identifies Species of European Conservation Concern (SPECs) so that action …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity

H Ritchie, F Spooner, M Roser - Our World in Data, 2022 - ourworldindata.org
You can find all our data, visualizations, and writing related to biodiversity on this page. It
aims to provide context on how biodiversity has changed in the past; the state of wildlife …

Animating the Carbon cycle: How wildlife conservation can be a key to mitigate climate change

OJ Schmitz, M Sylvén - Environment: Science and Policy for …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Arresting climate change is among the most formidable global challenges facing humankind
today. The 1.5–2 C or more rise in mean global temperature—projected to occur if net global …

Impacts of zoning and landscape structure on the relative abundance of wild boar assessed through a Bayesian N-mixture model

B Martijn, N Thomas, B Natalie, C Jim - Science of the total environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Increasing human-wild boar interactions have led to damage to agricultural crops, traffic
collisions and disease transmissions. Dividing natural areas in zones with differential …

Trophic cascades help restore vegetation

N Villar - Science, 2023 - science.org
Herbivores engineer ecosystems through top-down control of vegetation, as well as by
regulation of plant diversity and dispersal, fire severity, soil nutrient cycles, and carbon …