Fish communities face increasing anthropogenic pressures in freshwater and marine ecosystems that modify their biodiversity and threaten the services they supply to human …
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 …
Anthropocene defaunation, the global extinction of faunal species and populations and the decline in abundance of individuals within populations, has been predominantly …
INTRODUCTION There is an urgent need for a new paradigm that integrates the continued development of human societies and the maintenance of the Earth system (ES) in a resilient …
Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …
Worldwide biodiversity assessments have mainly focused on species richness but little is known about the diversity of species roles, ie functional diversity, while this is a key facet to …
Abstract Setting appropriate conservation strategies in a multi-threat world is a challenging goal, especially because of natural complexity and budget limitations that prevent effective …
KA Selkoe, T Blenckner, MR Caldwell… - Ecosystem Health …, 2015 - spj.science.org
As climatic changes and human uses intensify, resource managers and other decision makers are taking actions to either avoid or respond to ecosystem tipping points, or dramatic …
Robust assessments of taxonomic and functional diversity are essential components of research programmes aimed at understanding current biodiversity patterns and forecasting …