State of the world's birds

AC Lees, L Haskell, T Allinson… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
We present an overview of the global spatiotemporal distribution of avian biodiversity,
changes in our knowledge of that biodiversity, and the extent to which it is imperilled. Birds …

Essential biodiversity variables for map** and monitoring species populations

W Jetz, MA McGeoch, R Guralnick, S Ferrier… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Species distributions and abundances are undergoing rapid changes worldwide. This
highlights the significance of reliable, integrated information for guiding and assessing …

Impact of climate change on biodiversity loss: global evidence

MS Habibullah, BH Din, SH Tan, H Zahid - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
The present study investigates the impact of climate change on biodiversity loss using global
data consisting of 115 countries. In this study, we measure biodiversity loss using data on …

Protected areas have a mixed impact on waterbirds, but management helps

HS Wauchope, JPG Jones, J Geldmann, BI Simmons… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
International policy is focused on increasing the proportion of the Earth's surface that is
protected for nature,. Although studies show that protected areas prevent habitat loss …

A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures

J Geldmann, A Manica, ND Burgess… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
One-sixth of the global terrestrial surface now falls within protected areas (PAs), making it
essential to understand how far they mitigate the increasing pressures on nature which …

Protected areas slow declines unevenly across the tetrapod tree of life

A Justin Nowakowski, JI Watling, A Murray… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Protected areas (PAs) are the primary strategy for slowing terrestrial biodiversity loss.
Although expansion of PA coverage is prioritized under the Convention on Biological …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring biodiversity from DNA in the air

EL Clare, CK Economou, FJ Bennett, CE Dyer… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The crisis of declining biodiversity 1 exceeds our current ability to monitor changes in
ecosystems. Rapid terrestrial biomonitoring approaches are essential to quantify the causes …

A forest loss report card for the world's protected areas

C Wolf, T Levi, WJ Ripple, DA Zárrate-Charry… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Protected areas are a key tool in the conservation of global biodiversity and carbon stores.
We conducted a global test of the degree to which more than 18,000 terrestrial protected …

Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats

V Kubelka, BK Sandercock, T Székely… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Every year, many wild animals undertake long-distance migration to breed in the north,
taking advantage of seasonally high pulses in food supply, fewer parasites, and lower …

Conversions between natural wetlands and farmland in China: A multiscale geospatial analysis

D Mao, L Luo, Z Wang, MC Wilson, Y Zeng… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Agricultural activity is widely recognized as a leading driver of natural wetland loss in many
parts of the world. However, little is known about the spatiotemporal patterns of conversion …