More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends

C Finn, F Grattarola, D Pincheira‐Donoso - Biological Reviews, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The global‐scale decline of animal biodiversity ('defaunation') represents one of the most
alarming consequences of human impacts on the planet. The quantification of this extinction …

Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

A Antonelli, WD Kissling, SGA Flantua… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Mountains are key features of the Earth's surface and host a substantial proportion of the
world's species. However, the links between the evolution and distribution of biodiversity …

A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

N Cox, BE Young, P Bowles, M Fernandez, J Marin… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Comprehensive assessments of species' extinction risks have documented the extinction
crisis and underpinned strategies for reducing those risks. Global assessments reveal that …

The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

U Roll, A Feldman, M Novosolov, A Allison… - Nature ecology & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
The distributions of amphibians, birds and mammals have underpinned global and local
conservation priorities, and have been fundamental to our understanding of the …

Imagining extinction: The cultural meanings of endangered species

UK Heise - Imagining Extinction, 2016‏ - degruyter.com
We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth,
biologists claim—the first one caused by humans. Activists, filmmakers, writers, and artists …

Vulnerability of global biodiversity hotspots to climate change

BT Trew, IMD Maclean - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Motivation More than half of Earth's species are contained in a mere 1.4% of its land area,
but the climates of many of these biodiversity hotspots are projected to disappear as a …

Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification

L Kehoe, A Romero-Muñoz, E Polaina, L Estes… - Nature ecology & …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Agriculture is the leading driver of biodiversity loss. However, its future impact on biodiversity
remains unclear, especially because agricultural intensification is often neglected, and high …

A strategy for the next decade to address data deficiency in neglected biodiversity

A Hochkirch, MJ Samways, J Gerlach… - Conservation …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Measuring progress toward international biodiversity targets requires robust information on
the conservation status of species, which the International Union for Conservation of Nature …

Using species distribution models at local scale to guide the search of poorly known species: Review, methodological issues and future directions

M Fois, A Cuena-Lombraña, G Fenu, G Bacchetta - Ecological Modelling, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Among specific applications of species distribution models (SDMs), the use of SDMs
probabilistic maps for guiding field surveys is increasingly applied. This approach is …

[HTML][HTML] Biodiversity hotspots: A shortcut for a more complicated concept

C Marchese - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015‏ - Elsevier
In an era of human activities, global environmental changes, habitat loss and species
extinction, conservation strategies are a crucial step toward minimizing biodiversity loss. For …