Global impacts of future urban expansion on terrestrial vertebrate diversity

G Li, C Fang, Y Li, Z Wang, S Sun, S He, W Qi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… -term biodiversity conservation schemes. We recommend that more attention should be given
to … when setting global biodiversity conservation goals for the post-2020 global biodiversity

Global determinants and conservation of evolutionary and geographic rarity in land vertebrates

G Murali, R Gumbs, S Meiri, U Roll - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
… to incorporate species evolutionary history in the current conservation priority setting (7, 21,
… at a global scale intended to highlight global patterns (40). Nevertheless, most conservation

Priority areas for conservation of and research focused on terrestrial vertebrates

J Nori, R Loyola, F Villalobos - Conservation Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… in terms of both conservation and research for terrestrial vertebrates. We overlapped the …
priority conservation and research areas for terrestrial vertebrates with the global network of …

Global patterns of resilience decline in vertebrate populations

P Capdevila, N Noviello, L McRae, R Freeman… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… In this study, we use a global data set of vertebrate population time-series, the Living
Planet Database (LPD; Loh et al., 2005), to evaluate the temporal trends of the resilience …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of vertebrate richness across global anthromes: prioritizing conservation beyond biomes and ecoregions

JE Quinn, EK Cook, N Gauthier - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
biodiversity patterns are limited at a global extent. To address this gap, we used global data
sets of anthromes and terrestrial vertebrate … revealed important global patterns and changes. …

Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity

P Semenchuk, C Plutzar, T Kastner, S Matej… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… We find that land-use entails the loss of ~15% of terrestrial vertebrate species from the … risk
of global extinction for 556 individual species. Given the large fraction of global land currently …

Improving post-2020 conservation of terrestrial vertebrates in Caatinga

TAF Doria, R Dobrovolski - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
… We found that the 1014 terrestrial vertebrates of Caatinga presents a mean range size (EOO)
of 425,539 km 2 (±326,549 sd). The refinement of EOO by mapping the AOH implied the …

Tropical forests are home to over half of the world's vertebrate species

R Pillay, M Venter, J Aragon‐Osejo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… We focused on terrestrial vertebrates because … International Union for Conservation of
Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. We quantified the number of terrestrial vertebrate

Effectively and accurately mapping global biodiversity patterns for different regions and taxa

AC Hughes, MC Orr, Q Yang… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… We discuss alternative methods of mapping diversity patterns … Our goal is to inform the
conservation community to make … on a clearer understanding of species and richness patterns. …

Global gaps in trait data for terrestrial vertebrates

A Etard, S Morrill, T Newbold - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… However, there has been no study to date investigating global patterns in the … across
terrestrial vertebrates. Here, we aim to assess the global state of trait data in terrestrial vertebrates. …