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Cienciala P. A case for stronger integration of physical landscape processes in conservation science and practice. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 2024; 38:e14229. [PMID: 38111956 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2023] [Revised: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 11/26/2023] [Indexed: 12/20/2023]
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I argue that the dynamic nature of contemporary, landscape-shaping (geomorphic) processes deserves more consideration in conservation science and practice. In an analysis of a sample of fundamental terms related to geomorphology and area-based conservation in the Web of Science, I found that the terms co-occurred in <2% of the analyzed entries (titles, abstracts, and keywords) from 2000 to 2020. This result is indicative of the rather peripheral attention that, more broadly, landscape-shaping processes seem to receive in the conservation literature. Among conservation scientists and practitioners, landforms that define the physical structure of habitat are often perceived as largely static, whereas the consideration of their dynamic adjustments to geomorphic processes is often limited to extreme events. I use examples derived from river-floodplain environments to illustrate strong, multifaceted, and reciprocal interactions between biota and various erosional and depositional processes. These ubiquitous interdependencies clearly demonstrate that geomorphic processes are an integral part of ecosystem dynamics at time scales relevant for conservation. Crucially, erosional and depositional processes modulate many environmental impacts of past and current anthropogenic activities. I conclude that the absence of a more explicit and widespread consideration of geomorphic processes in conservation science and practice is surprising and detrimental to their effectiveness. I call for bolstered efforts among the conservation and geoscience communities to better integrate landscape dynamics within the field of conservation. The rise of the ecosystem-based and social-ecological systems approaches to conservation and the growth of interdisciplinary geoscience branches (e.g., biogeomorphology, ecohydraulics, and geoconservation) will facilitate such an integration.
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- Piotr Cienciala
- Department of Geography & GIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
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Klein SG, Roch C, Duarte CM. Systematic review of the uncertainty of coral reef futures under climate change. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2224. [PMID: 38472196 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46255-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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Climate change impact syntheses, such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, consistently assert that limiting global warming to 1.5 °C is unlikely to safeguard most of the world's coral reefs. This prognosis is primarily based on a small subset of available models that apply similar 'excess heat' threshold methodologies. Our systematic review of 79 articles projecting coral reef responses to climate change revealed five main methods. 'Excess heat' models constituted one third (32%) of all studies but attracted a disproportionate share (68%) of citations in the field. Most methods relied on deterministic cause-and-effect rules rather than probabilistic relationships, impeding the field's ability to estimate uncertainty. To synthesize the available projections, we aimed to identify models with comparable outputs. However, divergent choices in model outputs and scenarios limited the analysis to a fraction of available studies. We found substantial discrepancies in the projected impacts, indicating that the subset of articles serving as a basis for climate change syntheses may project more severe consequences than other studies and methodologies. Drawing on insights from other fields, we propose methods to incorporate uncertainty into deterministic modeling approaches and propose a multi-model ensemble approach to generating probabilistic projections for coral reef futures.
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- Shannon G Klein
- Marine Science Program, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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- Marine Science Program, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Marine Science Program, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division (BESE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Tozer MG, Keith DA. Beyond central-tendency: If we agree discrete vegetation communities do not exist, should we investigate other methods of clustering? Ecol Evol 2023; 13:e10757. [PMID: 38020702 PMCID: PMC10659940 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Clustering is indispensable in the quest for robust vegetation classification schemes that aim to partition, summarise and communicate patterns. However, clustering solutions are sensitive to methods and data and are therefore unstable, a feature that is usually attributed to noise. Viewed through a central-tendency lens, noise is defined as the degree of departure from type, which is problematic since vegetation types are abstractions of continua, and so noise can only be quantified relative to the particular solution at hand. Graph theory models the structure of vegetation data based on the interconnectivity of samples. Through a graph-theoretic lens, the causes of instability can be quantified in absolute terms via the degree of connectivity among objects. We simulated incremental increases in sampling intensity in a dataset over five iterations and assessed classification stability across successive solutions derived using algorithms implementing, respectively, models of central-tendency and interconnectivity. We used logistic regression to model the likelihood of a sample changing groups between iterations as a function of distance to the centroid and degree of interconnectivity. Our results show that the degree to which samples are interconnected is a more powerful predictor of instability than the degree to which they deviate from their nearest centroid. The removal of weakly interconnected samples resulted in more stable classifications, although solutions with many clusters were apparently inherently less stable than those with few clusters, and improvements in stability flowing from the removal of outliers declined as the number of clusters increased. Our results reinforce the fact that clusters abstracted from continuous data are inherently unstable and that the quest for stable, fine-scale classifications from large regional datasets is illusory. Nevertheless, our results show that using models better suited to the analysis of continuous data may yield more stable classifications of the available data.
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- Mark G. Tozer
- NSW Department of Planning and EnvironmentParramattaNew South WalesAustralia
- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, Centre for Ecosystem ScienceUniversity of NSWSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science, Centre for Ecosystem ScienceUniversity of NSWSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
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Gonçalves GSR, Cerqueira PV, Silva DP, Gomes LB, Leão CF, de Andrade AFA, Santos MPD. Multi-temporal ecological niche modeling for bird conservation in the face of climate change scenarios in Caatinga, Brazil. PeerJ 2023; 11:e14882. [PMID: 36874965 PMCID: PMC9979838 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023] Open
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Background Global shifts in climatic patterns have been recorded over the last decades. Such modifications mainly correspond to increased temperatures and rainfall regime changes, which are becoming more variable and extreme. Methods We aimed to evaluate the impact of future changes in climatic patterns on the distribution of 19 endemic or threatened bird taxa of the Caatinga. We assessed whether current protected areas (PAs) are adequate and whether they will maintain their effectiveness in the future. Also, we identified climatically stable areas that might work as refugia for an array of species. Results We observed that 84% and 87% of the bird species of Caatinga analyzed in this study will face high area losses in their predicted range distribution areas in future scenarios (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5, respectively). We also observed that the current PAs in Caatinga are ineffective in protecting these species in both present and future scenarios, even when considering all protection area categories. However, several suitable areas can still be allocated for conservation, where there are vegetation remnants and a high amount of species. Therefore, our study paves a path for conservation actions to mitigate current and future extinctions due to climate change by choosing more suitable protection areas.
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- Laboratório de Biogeografia da Conservação e Macroecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia, Instituto Federal Goiano, Urutaí, Goiás, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biogeografia da Conservação e Macroecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Biogeografia da Conservação e Macroecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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High-resolution global maps of tidal flat ecosystems from 1984 to 2019. Sci Data 2022; 9:542. [PMID: 36068234 PMCID: PMC9448797 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01635-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Assessments of the status of tidal flats, one of the most extensive coastal ecosystems, have been hampered by a lack of data on their global distribution and change. Here we present globally consistent, spatially-explicit data of the occurrence of tidal flats, defined as sand, rock or mud flats that undergo regular tidal inundation. More than 1.3 million Landsat images were processed to 54 composite metrics for twelve 3-year periods, spanning four decades (1984–1986 to 2017–2019). The composite metrics were used as predictor variables in a machine-learning classification trained with more than 10,000 globally distributed training samples. We assessed accuracy of the classification with 1,348 stratified random samples across the mapped area, which indicated overall map accuracies of 82.2% (80.0–84.3%, 95% confidence interval) and 86.1% (84.2–86.8%, 95% CI) for version 1.1 and 1.2 of the data, respectively. We expect these maps will provide a means to measure and monitor a range of processes that are affecting coastal ecosystems, including the impacts of human population growth and sea level rise. Measurement(s) | ecosystem occurrence | Technology Type(s) | earth observation | Sample Characteristic - Environment | tidal flats • coastal wetlands | Sample Characteristic - Location | global |
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Lavergne E, Kume M, Ahn H, Henmi Y, Terashima Y, Ye F, Kameyama S, Kai Y, Kadowaki K, Kobayashi S, Yamashita Y, Kasai A. Effects of forest cover on richness of threatened fish species in Japan. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY : THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 2022; 36:e13847. [PMID: 34668598 PMCID: PMC9299902 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Revised: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 09/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Estuaries--one of the most vulnerable ecosystems globally--face anthropogenic threats, including biodiversity loss and the collapse of sustainable fisheries. Determining the factors contributing to the maintenance of estuarine biodiversity, especially that of fish, is vital for promoting estuarine conservation and sustainability. We used environmental DNA metabarcoding analysis to determine fish species composition in 22 estuaries around Japan and measured watershed-scale land-use factors (e.g., population size, urban area percentage, and forest area percentage). We sought to test the hypothesis that the richness of the most vulnerable estuarine fish species (i.e., registered by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment in the national species red-list) is determined by watershed-scale land-use factors. The richness of such species was greater, where forest cover was highest; thus, forest cover contributes to their conservation. The proportion of agriculture cover was associated with low species richness of red-listed fishes (redundancy analysis, adjusted R2 = 43.9% of total variance, df = 5, F = 5.3843, p = 0.0001). The number of red-listed species increased from 3 to 11 along a watershed land-use gradient ranging from a high proportion of agriculture cover to a large proportion of forest cover. Furthermore, the results showed that throughout Japan all the examined watersheds that were covered by >74.8% forest had more than the average (6.7 species per site) richness of red-listed fish species. This result can be attributed to the already high average forest cover in Japan of 67.2%. Our results demonstrate how the land use of watersheds can affect the coastal sea environment and its biodiversity and suggest that proper forest management in conjunction with land-use management may be of prime importance for threatened fish species and coastal ecosystems in general.
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- Edouard Lavergne
- Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC)Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and OceansKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM)Université de Bretagne OccidentalePlouzanéFrance
- Plastic@SeaBanyuls‐sur‐MerFrance
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- Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC)Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and OceansKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and OceansKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- Faculty of Fisheries SciencesHokkaido UniversityHakodateJapan
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- Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC)Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and OceansKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and OceansKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and OceansKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- Biodiversity DivisionNational Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)TsukubaJapan
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- Biodiversity DivisionNational Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)TsukubaJapan
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- Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC)Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC)Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- The Hakubi Center for Advanced ResearchGraduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC)Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Field Science Education and Research Center (FSERC)Kyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
- Research and Educational Unit for Studies on Connectivity of Hills, Humans and OceansKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Faculty of Fisheries SciencesHokkaido UniversityHakodateJapan
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Forest Ecosystem Fragmentation in Ecuador: Challenges for Sustainable Land Use in the Tropical Andean. LAND 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/land11020287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Natural ecosystems are declining and fragmenting globally at unprecedented rates. Fragmentation of natural ecosystems leads to decline in functions and services with severe impact on people. In Ecuador, despite establishment of the nationwide ecosystem classification, this baseline information has not been fully exploited to generate a monitoring system for ecosystem changes. Forest ecosystems are altered daily in Ecuador by human impact, but the relationship between forest fragmentation and human land use has not been adequately explored. To provide an overview of how recent forest fragmentation at the national and ecosystem level was affected by practices in human land use, we quantified the degree of forest fragmentation using the forest fragmentation index (FFI). The relationship between the degree of forest ecosystem fragmentation and human land use of 64 natural forest ecosystems was analyzed during the time period 1990 to 2014. At the national level, the expansion of pasture and inhabited area significantly increased forest fragmentation. The regression models based on the FFI value indicated that the forest fragmentation was highly correlated to pastures in forest ecosystems with low, moderate, and high fragmentation in 2014 due to a progressive increase in pastures. This study showed the critical gaps between forest conservation strategies and actual practices in human land use.
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Ortiz JC, Pears RJ, Beeden R, Dryden J, Wolff NH, Gomez Cabrera MDC, Mumby PJ. Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular
Acropora. Conserv Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Juan C. Ortiz
- Australian Institute of Marine Science Townsville Queensland Australia
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- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Townsville Queensland Australia
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- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Townsville Queensland Australia
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- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Townsville Queensland Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences The University of Queensland St Lucia Queensland Australia
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Douglas Queensland Australia
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A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 4:1459-1471. [PMID: 32929239 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01298-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2019] [Accepted: 08/04/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Applied ecology has traditionally approached management problems through a simplified, single-species lens. Repeated failures of single-species management have led us to a new paradigm - managing at the ecosystem level. Ecosystem management involves a complex array of interacting organisms, processes and scientific disciplines. Accounting for interactions, feedback loops and dependencies between ecosystem components is therefore fundamental to understanding and managing ecosystems. We provide an overview of the main types of ecosystem models and their uses, and discuss challenges related to modelling complex ecological systems. Existing modelling approaches typically attempt to do one or more of the following: describe and disentangle ecosystem components and interactions; make predictions about future ecosystem states; and inform decision making by comparing alternative strategies and identifying important uncertainties. Modelling ecosystems is challenging, particularly when balancing the desire to represent many components of an ecosystem with the limitations of available data and the modelling objective. Explicitly considering different forms of uncertainty is therefore a primary concern. We provide some recommended strategies (such as ensemble ecosystem models and multi-model approaches) to aid the explicit consideration of uncertainty while also meeting the challenges of modelling ecosystems.
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Heinze S, Finck P, Raths U, Riecken U, Ssymank A. Revised criteria system for a national assessment of threatened habitats in Germany. NATURE CONSERVATION 2020. [DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.40.50656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The Red List of threatened habitat types in Germany was first published in 1994 and it is updated approximately every ten years. In 2017 the third version was published by the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. In the course of the revision, the criteria system was also extended. In doing so, an attempt was made to find a compromise between the consideration of international developments that had taken place and existing national requirements. In particular, short-term developments should become visible through the German Red List status. In addition to ‘National long-term Threat’, the valuation now also includes ‘Current Trend’ and ‘Rarity’. Following the IUCN’s approach, the collapse risk is now represented on the basis of several criteria. However, in contrast to the IUCN procedure, where the worst evaluated criterion is determinative for Red List status, in our procedure all criteria are included in the evaluation. To counteract misleading signal-effects for management decisions, all significant criteria have an influence on the resulting German Red List status (RLG). They are combined in an assessment scheme. In order to map the overall risk of loss, both the long-term threat as a historical reference value and furthermore the current trend must have an influence on RLG. As a result, 65% of habitat types have differing risk of loss.
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Gillies CL, Castine SA, Alleway HK, Crawford C, Fitzsimons JA, Hancock B, Koch P, McAfee D, McLeod IM, zu Ermgassen PS. Conservation status of the Oyster Reef Ecosystem of Southern and Eastern Australia. Glob Ecol Conserv 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e00988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Francis FT, Howard BR, Berchtold AE, Branch TA, Chaves LCT, Dunic JC, Favaro B, Jeffrey KM, Malpica-Cruz L, Maslowski N, Schultz JA, Smith NS, Côté IM. Shifting headlines? Size trends of newsworthy fishes. PeerJ 2019; 7:e6395. [PMID: 30783570 PMCID: PMC6378912 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2018] [Accepted: 01/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The shifting baseline syndrome describes a gradual lowering of human cognitive baselines, as each generation accepts a lower standard of resource abundance or size as the new norm. There is strong empirical evidence of declining trends of abundance and body sizes of marine fish species reported from docks and markets. We asked whether these widespread trends in shrinking marine fish are detectable in popular English-language media, or whether news writers, like many marine stakeholders, are captive to shifting baselines. We collected 266 English-language news articles, printed between 1869 and 2015, which featured headlines that used a superlative adjective, such as 'giant', 'huge', or 'monster', to describe an individual fish caught. We combined the reported sizes of the captured fish with information on maximum species-specific recorded sizes to reconstruct trends of relative size (reported size divided by maximum size) of newsworthy fishes over time. We found some evidence of a shifting baseline syndrome in news media over the last 140 years: overall, the relative length of the largest fish worthy of a headline has declined over time. This pattern held for charismatic fish species (e.g. basking sharks, whale sharks, giant mantas), which are now reported in the media at smaller relative lengths than they were near the turn of the 20th century, and for the largest species under high risk of extinction. In contrast, there was no similar trend for pelagic gamefish and oceanic sharks, or for species under lower risk of extinction. While landing any individual of the large-bodied 'megafish' may be newsworthy in part because of their large size relative to other fish species, the 'megafish' covered in our dataset were small relative to their own species-on average only 56% of the species-specific maximum length. The continued use in the English-language media of superlatives to describe fish that are now a fraction of the maximum size they could reach, or a fraction of the size they used to be, does reflect a shifting baseline for some species. Given that media outlets are a powerful tool for shaping public perception and awareness of environmental issues, there is a real concern that such stories might be interpreted as meaning that superlatively large fish still abound.
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- Fiona T Francis
- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Borthagaray AI, Soutullo A, Carranza A, Arim M. A modularity-based approach for identifying biodiversity management units. REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL 2018. [DOI: 10.1186/s40693-018-0072-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Murray NJ, Keith DA, Simpson D, Wilshire JH, Lucas RM. Remap
: An online remote sensing application for land cover classification and monitoring. Methods Ecol Evol 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Nicholas J. Murray
- Centre for Ecosystem Science School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia
- New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage Hurstville New South Wales Australia
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia
- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth Ceredigion UK
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Habitat conservation in Italy: the state of the art in the light of the first European Red List of Terrestrial and Freshwater Habitats. RENDICONTI LINCEI-SCIENZE FISICHE E NATURALI 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s12210-018-0688-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Destro GFG, De Marco P, Terribile LC. Threats for bird population restoration: A systematic review. Perspect Ecol Conserv 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pecon.2018.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022] Open
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Murray NJ, Keith DA, Bland LM, Ferrari R, Lyons MB, Lucas R, Pettorelli N, Nicholson E. The role of satellite remote sensing in structured ecosystem risk assessments. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 619-620:249-257. [PMID: 29149749 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2017] [Revised: 11/03/2017] [Accepted: 11/03/2017] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The current set of global conservation targets requires methods for monitoring the changing status of ecosystems. Protocols for ecosystem risk assessment are uniquely suited to this task, providing objective syntheses of a wide range of data to estimate the likelihood of ecosystem collapse. Satellite remote sensing can deliver ecologically relevant, long-term datasets suitable for analysing changes in ecosystem area, structure and function at temporal and spatial scales relevant to risk assessment protocols. However, there is considerable uncertainty about how to select and effectively utilise remotely sensed variables for risk assessment. Here, we review the use of satellite remote sensing for assessing spatial and functional changes of ecosystems, with the aim of providing guidance on the use of these data in ecosystem risk assessment. We suggest that decisions on the use of satellite remote sensing should be made a priori and deductively with the assistance of conceptual ecosystem models that identify the primary indicators representing the dynamics of a focal ecosystem.
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- Nicholas J Murray
- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia; School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia; New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology (Burwood Campus), 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, 4810, Australia
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia.
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, NW1 4RY London, UK.
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- Deakin University, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology (Burwood Campus), 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.
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Jiménez-Alfaro B, Suárez-Seoane S, Chytrý M, Hennekens SM, Willner W, Hájek M, Agrillo E, Álvarez-Martínez JM, Bergamini A, Brisse H, Brunet J, Casella L, Dítě D, Font X, Gillet F, Hájková P, Jansen F, Jandt U, Kącki Z, Lenoir J, Rodwell JS, Schaminée JHJ, Sekulová L, Šibík J, Škvorc Ž, Tsiripidis I. Modelling the distribution and compositional variation of plant communities at the continental scale. DIVERS DISTRIB 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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- Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
- Research Unit of Biodiversity (CSIC, UO, PA); Oviedo University; Mieres Asturias Spain
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- Research Unit of Biodiversity (CSIC, UO, PA); Oviedo University; Mieres Asturias Spain
- Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management; University of León; León Spain
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- Department of Botany and Zoology; Masaryk University; Brno Czech Republic
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- Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses; Vienna Austria
- Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research; University of Vienna; Wien Austria
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- Department of Botany and Zoology; Masaryk University; Brno Czech Republic
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- Department of Environmental Biology; Sapienza University of Rome; Rome Italy
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- Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH; Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria; Santander Spain
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- Biodiversity and Conservation Biology; Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Birmensdorf Switzerland
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- Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Alnarp Sweden
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- ISPRA; Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Roma Italy
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- Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre; Slovak Academy of Sciences; Institute of Botany; Bratislava Slovakia
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- Department of Plant Biology; University of Barcelona; Barcelona Spain
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- UMR Chrono-environnement; CNRS - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté; Besançon Cedex France
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- Department of Botany and Zoology; Masaryk University; Brno Czech Republic
- Laboratory of Paleoecology; Department of Vegetation Ecology; The Czech Academy of Sciences; Brno Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences; University of Rostock; Rostock Germany
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- Geobotany and Botanical Garden; Institute of Biology; Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg; Halle (Saale) Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Halle-Jena-Leipzig Germany
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- Botanical Garden; University of Wroclaw; Wrocław Poland
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- UR “Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisés” (EDYSAN UMR 7058, CNRS-UPJV); Université de Picardie Jules Verne; Amiens France
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- Department of Botany and Zoology; Masaryk University; Brno Czech Republic
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- Plant Science and Biodiversity Centre; Slovak Academy of Sciences; Institute of Botany; Bratislava Slovakia
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- Faculty of Forestry; University of Zagreb; Zagreb Croatia
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- Department of Botany; School of Biology; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Thessaloniki Greece
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Álvarez‐Martínez JM, Jiménez‐Alfaro B, Barquín J, Ondiviela B, Recio M, Silió‐Calzada A, Juanes JA. Modelling the area of occupancy of habitat types with remote sensing. Methods Ecol Evol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig Germany
- Geobotany and Botanical GardenInstitute of BiologyMartin Luther University Halle WittenbergHalle (Saale) Germany
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- Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH CantabriaParque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria Santander Spain
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- Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH CantabriaParque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria Santander Spain
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- Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH CantabriaParque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria Santander Spain
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- Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH CantabriaParque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria Santander Spain
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- Environmental Hydraulics Institute IH CantabriaParque Científico y Tecnológico de Cantabria Santander Spain
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Rauf A, Uddin G, Patel S, Khan A, Halim SA, Bawazeer S, Ahmad K, Muhammad N, Mubarak MS. Diospyros, an under-utilized, multi-purpose plant genus: A review. Biomed Pharmacother 2017; 91:714-730. [PMID: 28499243 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopha.2017.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2016] [Revised: 05/01/2017] [Accepted: 05/02/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The genus Diospyros from family Ebenaceae has versatile uses including edible fruits, valuable timber, and ornamental uses. The plant parts of numerous species have been in use as remedies in various folk healing practices, which include therapy for hemorrhage, incontinence, insomnia, hiccough, diarrhea etc. Phytochemical constituents such as terpenoids, ursanes, lupanes, polyphenols, tannins, hydrocarbons, and lipids, benzopyrones, naphthoquinones, oleananes, and taraxeranes have been isolated from different species of this genus. The biological activities of these plants such as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, anti-diabetic, antibacterial, anthelmintic, antihypertensive, cosmeceutical, enzyme-inhibitory etc. have been validated by means of an in vitro, in vivo, and clinical tests. As a rich reserve of pharmacologically important components, this genus can accelerate the pace of drug discovery. Accordingly, the aim of the present review is to survey and summarize the recent literature pertaining to the medicinal and pharmacological uses of Diospyros, and to select experimental evidence on the pharmacological properties of this genus. In addition, the review also aims at identifying areas that need development to make use of this genus, especially its fruit and phytochemicals as means for economic development and for drug discovery.
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- Abdur Rauf
- Department of Chemistry, University of Swabi, Anbar 23561, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
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- Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, Peshawar 25120, Pakistan
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- Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego 92182, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan; Department of Biochemistry Kinnaird College for Women, 93-Jail Road, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, P.O. Box 42, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Environmental, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad 22060, Pakistan
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- Department of Pharmacy, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan 23200, Pakistan
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Escribano-Avila G, Cervera L, Ordóñez-Delgado L, Jara-Guerrero A, Amador L, Paladines B, Briceño J, Parés-Jiménez V, Lizcano DJ, Duncan DH, Iván Espinosa C. Biodiversity patterns and ecological processes in Neotropical dry forest: the need to connect research and management for long-term conservation. NEOTROPICAL BIODIVERSITY 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2017.1298495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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- Central Department of Research, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi, Manta, Ecuador
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- Science Faculty, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
- Research Department, Universidad Laica Vincente Rocafuerte de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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- Natural Science, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Central Department of Research, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi, Manta, Ecuador
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- Central Department of Research, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabi, Manta, Ecuador
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- Natural Science, Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Chloe F. Sato
- Fenner School of Environment and Society; The Australian National University; Acton ACT 2601 Australia
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- Fenner School of Environment and Society; The Australian National University; Acton ACT 2601 Australia
- National Environment Science Program, Threatened Species Recovery Hub, Fenner School of Environment and Society; Strine Natural Whouni; Canberra ACT 2601
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Murray NJ, Keith DA, Bland LM, Nicholson E, Regan TJ, Rodríguez JP, Bedward M. The use of range size to assess risks to biodiversity from stochastic threats. DIVERS DISTRIB 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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- Nicholas J. Murray
- Centre for Ecosystem Science School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science University of New South Wales Sydney NSW Australia
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science University of New South Wales Sydney NSW Australia
- New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage Hurstville NSW Australia
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- School of Biosciences University of Melbourne Melbourne Vic. Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology Deakin University Burwood Vic. Australia
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- The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research 123 Brown St Heidelberg Vic. 3084 Australia
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- Centro de Ecología Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas Apdo. 20632 Caracas 1020‐A Venezuela
- Provita Apdo. 47552 Caracas 1041‐A Venezuela
- Species Survival Commission and Commission on Ecosystem Management International Union for Conservation of Nature Rue Mauverney 28 Gland 1196 Switzerland
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- School of Biological Sciences University of Wollongong Wollongong NSW Australia
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Juffe-Bignoli D, Brooks TM, Butchart SHM, Jenkins RB, Boe K, Hoffmann M, Angulo A, Bachman S, Böhm M, Brummitt N, Carpenter KE, Comer PJ, Cox N, Cuttelod A, Darwall WRT, Di Marco M, Fishpool LDC, Goettsch B, Heath M, Hilton-Taylor C, Hutton J, Johnson T, Joolia A, Keith DA, Langhammer PF, Luedtke J, Nic Lughadha E, Lutz M, May I, Miller RM, Oliveira-Miranda MA, Parr M, Pollock CM, Ralph G, Rodríguez JP, Rondinini C, Smart J, Stuart S, Symes A, Tordoff AW, Woodley S, Young B, Kingston N. Assessing the Cost of Global Biodiversity and Conservation Knowledge. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0160640. [PMID: 27529491 PMCID: PMC4986939 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160640] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Accepted: 07/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Knowledge products comprise assessments of authoritative information supported by standards, governance, quality control, data, tools, and capacity building mechanisms. Considerable resources are dedicated to developing and maintaining knowledge products for biodiversity conservation, and they are widely used to inform policy and advise decision makers and practitioners. However, the financial cost of delivering this information is largely undocumented. We evaluated the costs and funding sources for developing and maintaining four global biodiversity and conservation knowledge products: The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems, Protected Planet, and the World Database of Key Biodiversity Areas. These are secondary data sets, built on primary data collected by extensive networks of expert contributors worldwide. We estimate that US$160 million (range: US$116–204 million), plus 293 person-years of volunteer time (range: 278–308 person-years) valued at US$ 14 million (range US$12–16 million), were invested in these four knowledge products between 1979 and 2013. More than half of this financing was provided through philanthropy, and nearly three-quarters was spent on personnel costs. The estimated annual cost of maintaining data and platforms for three of these knowledge products (excluding the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems for which annual costs were not possible to estimate for 2013) is US$6.5 million in total (range: US$6.2–6.7 million). We estimated that an additional US$114 million will be needed to reach pre-defined baselines of data coverage for all the four knowledge products, and that once achieved, annual maintenance costs will be approximately US$12 million. These costs are much lower than those to maintain many other, similarly important, global knowledge products. Ensuring that biodiversity and conservation knowledge products are sufficiently up to date, comprehensive and accurate is fundamental to inform decision-making for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Thus, the development and implementation of plans for sustainable long-term financing for them is critical.
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- Diego Juffe-Bignoli
- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 28 rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
- World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), University of the Philippines Los Baños, Laguna 4031, Philippines
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart TAS 7001, Australia
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- BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
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- IUCN Global Species Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Nature-based Solutions Group, IUCN, 28 Rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL Cambridge, United Kingdom
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 28 rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Amphibian Specialist Group, Toronto M8W 1R2, Canada
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4RY, United Kingdom
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- Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
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- IUCN Marine Biodiversity Unit, Global Species Programme/ Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
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- NatureServe, 4600 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA 22203, United States of America
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- IUCN CI Biodiversity Assessment Unit, IUCN Global Species Programme, c/o Conservation International, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202, United States of America
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- IUCN Global Species Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- IUCN Global Species Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland, 4072 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland, 4072 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- IUCN Global Species Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- IUCN Global Species Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Luc Hoffmann Institute, WWF International, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- IUCN Global Species Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
- New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage, Hurstville, New South Wales 2220, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States of America
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Amphibian Specialist Group, Toronto M8W 1R2, Canada
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, United Kingdom
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- BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Nature-based Solutions Group, IUCN, 28 Rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
- IUCN Global Ecosystem Management Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- American Bird Conservancy, 1731 Connecticut Avenue, Washington DC 20009, United States of America
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- IUCN Global Species Programme, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- IUCN Marine Biodiversity Unit, Global Species Programme/ Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, United States of America
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- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 28 rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
- Provita, Apdo. 47552, Caracas 1041-A, Venezuela
- Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Apdo. 20632, Caracas 1020-A, Venezuela
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- Global Mammal Assessment Program, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale dell'Università 32, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 28 rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
- Biodiversity Conservation Group, IUCN, 28 Rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL Cambridge, United Kingdom
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 28 rue Mauverney, 1196 Gland, Switzerland
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- BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QZ, United Kingdom
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- Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, 2011 Crystal Drive, Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202, United States of America
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- World Commission on Protected Areas IUCN, 64 Juniper Road, Chelsea, QC J9B1T3, Canada
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- NatureServe, 4600 N. Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA 22203, United States of America
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- United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), 219 Huntingdon Road, CB3 0DL Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Gigante D, Foggi B, Venanzoni R, Viciani D, Buffa G. Habitats on the grid: The spatial dimension does matter for red-listing. J Nat Conserv 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2016.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Brooks TM, Butchart SH, Cox NA, Heath M, Hilton-Taylor C, Hoffmann M, Kingston N, Rodríguez JP, Stuart SN, Smart J. Harnessing biodiversity and conservation knowledge products to track the Aichi Targets and Sustainable Development Goals. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/14888386.2015.1075903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Keith DA, Rodríguez JP, Brooks TM, Burgman MA, Barrow EG, Bland L, Comer PJ, Franklin J, Link J, McCarthy MA, Miller RM, Murray NJ, Nel J, Nicholson E, Oliveira-Miranda MA, Regan TJ, Rodríguez-Clark KM, Rouget M, Spalding MD. The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems: Motivations, Challenges, and Applications. Conserv Lett 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12167] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- David A. Keith
- Centre for Ecosystem Science; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales Australia
- New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage; Hurstville New South Wales Australia
- Long Term Ecological Research Network, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network; Australian National University; Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management; Gland Switzerland
- IUCN Species Survival Commission; Gland Switzerland
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- IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management; Gland Switzerland
- IUCN Species Survival Commission; Gland Switzerland
- Centro de Ecología; Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas; Caracas Venezuela
- Provita; Caracas Venezuela
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- Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, School of Botany; The University of Melbourne; Victoria Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Botany; The University of Melbourne; Victoria Australia
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- School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning; Arizona State University; Tempe Arizona USA
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- NOAA Fisheries; Woods Hole; Massachusetts USA
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Botany; The University of Melbourne; Victoria Australia
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- IUCN Global Ecosystem Management Programme; Cambridge United Kingdom
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science; University of New South Wales; Sydney New South Wales Australia
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- Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services; Natural Resources & the Environment, CSIR; South Africa
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Botany; The University of Melbourne; Victoria Australia
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences; Deakin University; Burwood Victoria Australia
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences; Deakin University; Burwood Victoria 3125 Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, School of Botany; The University of Melbourne; Victoria Australia
- Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research, Department of Environment; Land, Water and Planning; Heidelberg Victoria Australia
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- Long Term Ecological Research Network, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network; Australian National University; Canberra Australian Capital Territory Australia
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- Land Use Planning and Management, School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of KwaZulu; Natal South Africa
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- The Nature Conservancy and Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology; University of Cambridge; Cambridge England
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- David A. Keith
- Centre for Ecosystem Science; School of Biological; Earth and Environmental Science; University of NSW; Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
- NSW Office of Environment and Heritage; NSW 2220 Australia
- Long Term Ecological Research Network; Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network; Australian National University; Canberra Australian Capital Territory
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Murray NJ, Ma Z, Fuller RA. Tidal flats of the Yellow Sea: A review of ecosystem status and anthropogenic threats. AUSTRAL ECOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Nicholas J. Murray
- Centre for Ecosystem Science; School of Biological; Earth and Environmental Sciences; University of New South Wales; Sydney 2052 Australia
- Climate Adaptation Flagship and Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO; Dutton Park Queensland Australia
- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; St Lucia Queensland Australia
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- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering; Institute of Biodiversity Science; Fudan University; Shanghai China
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Queensland; St Lucia Queensland Australia
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