Biodiversity is essential to human well-being, but people have been reducing biodiversity
throughout human history. Loss of species and degradation of ecosystems are likely to …

Most current conservation strategies focus on the immediate social, cultural, and economic
values of ecological diversity, functions, and services. For example, the Intergovernmental …

Humans are transforming the biosphere in unprecedented ways, raising the important
question of how these impacts are changing biodiversity. Here we argue that our …

Human impacts on the planet, including anthropogenic climate change, are reshaping
ecosystems in unprecedented ways. To meet the challenge of conserving biodiversity in this …

Although habitat loss is the predominant factor leading to biodiversity loss in the
Anthropocene,, exactly how this loss manifests—and at which scales—remains a central …

The current massive degradation of habitat and extinction of species is taking place on a
catastrophically short timescale, and their effects will fundamentally reset the future evolution …

The continued growth of human populations and of per capita consumption have resulted in
unsustainable exploitation of Earth's biological diversity, exacerbated by climate change …

BACKGROUND The pace and magnitude of human-caused global change has accelerated
dramatically over the past 50 years, overwhelming the capacity of many ecosystems and …

The fossil record provides striking case studies of biodiversity loss and global ecosystem
upheaval. Because of this, many studies have sought to assess the magnitude of the current …

The global‐scale decline of animal biodiversity ('defaunation') represents one of the most
alarming consequences of human impacts on the planet. The quantification of this extinction …