Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi

E Nic Lughadha, SP Bachman, TCC Leão… - Plants, People …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

[HTML][HTML] The impacts of climate change on fish growth: A summary of conducted studies and current knowledge

M Huang, L Ding, J Wang, C Ding, J Tao - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Global climate change is increasingly and profoundly threatening fishes, resulting in an
uncertain future for both wild fish diversity and global fisheries. Understanding how fish …

Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

NK Dulvy, N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, RA Pollom… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The scale and drivers of marine biodiversity loss are being revealed by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment process. We present the first …

Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays

N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, PM Kyne, RB Sherley… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Overfishing is the primary cause of marine defaunation, yet declines in and increasing
extinction risks of individual species are difficult to measure, particularly for the largest …

Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

E Sala, J Mayorga, D Bradley, RB Cabral, TB Atwood… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ocean contains unique biodiversity, provides valuable food resources and is a major
sink for anthropogenic carbon. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an effective tool for …

Functional diversity of sharks and rays is highly vulnerable and supported by unique species and locations worldwide

C Pimiento, C Albouy, D Silvestro, TL Mouton… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates) are among the most threatened marine
vertebrates, yet their global functional diversity remains largely unknown. Here, we use a …

Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology

S Andrzejaczek, TCD Lucas, MC Goodman… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Knowledge of the three-dimensional movement patterns of elasmobranchs is vital to
understand their ecological roles and exposure to anthropogenic pressures. To date …

Shark genomes provide insights into elasmobranch evolution and the origin of vertebrates

Y Hara, K Yamaguchi, K Onimaru, M Kadota… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Modern cartilaginous fishes are divided into elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates) and
chimaeras, and the lack of established whole-genome sequences for the former has …

Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation

SJ Jorgensen, F Micheli, TD White… - Endangered Species …, 2022 - int-res.com
Over the past 4 decades there has been a growing concern for the conservation status of
elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). In 2002, the first elasmobranch species were added to …

Identifying direct and indirect associations among traits by merging phylogenetic comparative methods and structural equation models

JT Thorson, AA Maureaud, R Frelat… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Traits underlie organismal responses to their environment and are essential to predict
community responses to environmental conditions under global change. Species differ in life …