Big-data approaches lead to an increased understanding of the ecology of animal movement

R Nathan, CT Monk, R Arlinghaus, T Adam, J Alós… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding animal movement is essential to elucidate how animals interact, survive, and
thrive in a changing world. Recent technological advances in data collection and …

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 …

A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation

ST Garnett, ND Burgess, JE Fa… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding the scale, location and nature conservation values of the lands over which
Indigenous Peoples exercise traditional rights is central to implementation of several global …

Inferring the mammal tree: species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

NS Upham, JA Esselstyn, W Jetz - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife

C Rutz, MC Loretto, AE Bates, SC Davidson… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
COVID-19 lockdown allows researchers to quantify the effects of human activity on wildlife |
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A global record of annual terrestrial Human Footprint dataset from 2000 to 2018

H Mu, X Li, Y Wen, J Huang, P Du, W Su, S Miao… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Human Footprint, the pressure imposed on the eco-environment by changing ecological
processes and natural landscapes, is raising worldwide concerns on biodiversity and …

The effects of defaunation on plants' capacity to track climate change

EC Fricke, A Ordonez, HS Rogers, JC Svenning - Science, 2022 - science.org
Half of all plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds. Seed dispersal interactions
lost through defaunation and gained during novel community assembly influence whether …

The influence of human disturbance on wildlife nocturnality

KM Gaynor, CE Hojnowski, NH Carter, JS Brashares - Science, 2018 - science.org
Rapid expansion of human activity has driven well-documented shifts in the spatial
distribution of wildlife, but the cumulative effect of human disturbance on the temporal …

One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure

KR Jones, O Venter, RA Fuller, JR Allan, SL Maxwell… - Science, 2018 - science.org
In an era of massive biodiversity loss, the greatest conservation success story has been the
growth of protected land globally. Protected areas are the primary defense against …

Impacts of urban expansion on natural habitats in global drylands

Q Ren, C He, Q Huang, P Shi, D Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Urban regions across the world have expanded rapidly in recent decades, affecting fragile
natural habitats, including in drylands, and threatening the achievement of the UN …