Process-explicit models reveal the structure and dynamics of biodiversity patterns

JA Pilowsky, RK Colwell, C Rahbek, DA Fordham - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
With ever-growing data availability and computational power at our disposal, we now have
the capacity to use process-explicit models more widely to reveal the ecological and …

Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth

I Otero, KN Farrell, S Pueyo, G Kallis… - Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence—synthesized in this paper—shows that economic growth contributes to
biodiversity loss via greater resource consumption and higher emissions. Nonetheless, a …

Global hotspots for soil nature conservation

CA Guerra, M Berdugo, DJ Eldridge, N Eisenhauer… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Soils are the foundation of all terrestrial ecosystems. However, unlike for plants and animals,
a global assessment of hotspots for soil nature conservation is still lacking. This hampers our …

The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

M Delgado-Baquerizo, CA Guerra, C Cano-Díaz… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Understanding the present and future distribution of soil-borne plant pathogens is critical to
supporting food and fibre production in a warmer world. Using data from a global field …

Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

RP Powers, W Jetz - Nature climate change, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Global modeling of nature's contributions to people

R Chaplin-Kramer, RP Sharp, C Weil, EM Bennett… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The magnitude and pace of global change demand rapid assessment of nature and its
contributions to people. We present a fine-scale global modeling of current status and future …

Linking SDG 7 to assess the renewable energy footprint of nations by 2030

J He, Y Yang, Z Liao, A Xu, K Fang - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a guideline
for humanity to respond to an array of pressing challenges. Due to our increasing need for …

[HTML][HTML] Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions

P Leadley, A Gonzalez, D Obura, CB Krug… - One earth, 2022 - cell.com
Governments are negotiating actions intended to halt biodiversity loss and put it on a path to
recovery by 2050. Here, we show that bending the curve for biodiversity is possible, but only …

Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

CF Randin, MB Ashcroft, J Bolliger… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
In the face of the growing challenges brought about by human activities, effective planning
and decision-making in biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, restoration, and …

Wilderness areas halve the extinction risk of terrestrial biodiversity

M Di Marco, S Ferrier, TD Harwood, AJ Hoskins… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Reducing the rate of global biodiversity loss is a major challenge facing humanity 1, as the
consequences of biological annihilation would be irreversible for humankind 2, 3, 4 …