The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

BR Scheffers, L De Meester, TCL Bridge, AA Hoffmann… - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Climate change impacts have now been documented across every
ecosystem on Earth, despite an average warming of only~ 1° C so far. Here, we describe the …

Land‐use change and biodiversity: Challenges for assembling evidence on the greatest threat to nature

CW Davison, C Rahbek… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Land‐use change is considered the greatest threat to nature, having caused worldwide
declines in the abundance, diversity, and health of species and ecosystems. Despite …

Agriculture and climate change are reshaping insect biodiversity worldwide

CL Outhwaite, P McCann, T Newbold - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Several previous studies have investigated changes in insect biodiversity, with some
highlighting declines and others showing turnover in species composition without net …

Climate vulnerability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

LG Crozier, MM McClure, T Beechie, SJ Bograd… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Major ecological realignments are already occurring in response to climate change. To be
successful, conservation strategies now need to account for geographical patterns in traits …

Protect the last of the wild

JEM Watson, O Venter, J Lee, KR Jones, JG Robinson… - 2018 - nature.com
A century ago, only 15% of Earth's surface was used to grow crops and raise livestock 1.
Today, more than 77% of land (excluding Antarctica) and 87% of the ocean has been …

Fifteen forms of biodiversity trend in the Anthropocene

BJ McGill, M Dornelas, NJ Gotelli… - Trends in ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Humans are transforming the biosphere in unprecedented ways, raising the important
question of how these impacts are changing biodiversity. Here we argue that our …

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 …

Interactions between climate change and land use change on biodiversity: attribution problems, risks, and opportunities

TH Oliver, MD Morecroft - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Global change drivers are known to interact in their effects on biodiversity, but much
research to date ignores this complexity. As a consequence, there are problems in the …

Assessing species vulnerability to climate change

M Pacifici, WB Foden, P Visconti, JEM Watson… - Nature climate …, 2015 - nature.com
The effects of climate change on biodiversity are increasingly well documented, and many
methods have been developed to assess species' vulnerability to climatic changes, both …

Key tropical crops at risk from pollinator loss due to climate change and land use

J Millard, CL Outhwaite, S Ceaușu, LG Carvalheiro… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Insect pollinator biodiversity is changing rapidly, with potential consequences for the
provision of crop pollination. However, the role of land use–climate interactions in pollinator …