Protected areas and the future of insect conservation

S Chowdhury, MD Jennions, MP Zalucki… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Anthropogenic pressures are driving insect declines across the world. Although protected
areas (PAs) play a prominent role in safeguarding many vertebrate species from human …

Protecting biodiversity (in all its complexity): new models and methods

LJ Pollock, LMJ O'connor, K Mokany… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
We are facing a biodiversity crisis at the same time as we are acquiring an unprecedented
view of the world's biodiversity. Vast new datasets (eg, species distributions, traits …

A global record of annual terrestrial Human Footprint dataset from 2000 to 2018

H Mu, X Li, Y Wen, J Huang, P Du, W Su, S Miao… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Human Footprint, the pressure imposed on the eco-environment by changing ecological
processes and natural landscapes, is raising worldwide concerns on biodiversity and …

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

D Zurell, J Franklin, C König, PJ Bouchet… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across
ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready‐to‐use software packages and …

Renewable energy production will exacerbate mining threats to biodiversity

LJ Sonter, MC Dade, JEM Watson… - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Renewable energy production is necessary to halt climate change and reverse associated
biodiversity losses. However, generating the required technologies and infrastructure will …

Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments

V Cazalis, M Di Marco, SHM Butchart… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species
is central in biodiversity conservation, but insufficient resources hamper its long-term growth …

Change in terrestrial human footprint drives continued loss of intact ecosystems

BA Williams, O Venter, JR Allan, SC Atkinson… - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Human pressure mapping is important for understanding humanity's role in shaping Earth's
patterns and processes. Our ability to map this influence has evolved, thanks to powerful …

Wilderness areas halve the extinction risk of terrestrial biodiversity

M Di Marco, S Ferrier, TD Harwood, AJ Hoskins… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Reducing the rate of global biodiversity loss is a major challenge facing humanity 1, as the
consequences of biological annihilation would be irreversible for humankind 2, 3, 4 …

Just ten percent of the global terrestrial protected area network is structurally connected via intact land

M Ward, S Saura, B Williams… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land free of direct anthropogenic disturbance is considered essential for achieving
biodiversity conservation outcomes but is rapidly eroding. In response, many nations are …

[HTML][HTML] Where might we find ecologically intact communities?

AJ Plumptre, D Baisero, RT Belote… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Conservation efforts should target the few remaining areas of the world that represent
outstanding examples of ecological integrity and aim to restore ecological integrity to a much …