The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?

RH Cowie, P Bouchet, B Fontaine - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused
by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may …

[HTML][HTML] How genomics can help biodiversity conservation

K Theissinger, C Fernandes, G Formenti, I Bista… - Trends in Genetics, 2023 - cell.com
The availability of public genomic resources can greatly assist biodiversity assessment,
conservation, and restoration efforts by providing evidence for scientifically informed …

[HTML][HTML] Underestimating the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future

CJA Bradshaw, PR Ehrlich, A Beattie… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little
attention and require urgent action. First, we review the evidence that future environmental …

Regenerative agriculture: an agronomic perspective

KE Giller, R Hijbeek, JA Andersson… - Outlook on …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Agriculture is in crisis. Soil health is collapsing. Biodiversity faces the sixth mass extinction.
Crop yields are plateauing. Against this crisis narrative swells a clarion call for Regenerative …

[图书][B] The economics of biodiversity

P Dasgupta - 2024 - books.google.com
We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

[PDF][PDF] Food system impacts on biodiversity loss

TG Benton, C Bieg, H Harwatt, R Pudasaini… - Three levers for food …, 2021 - ciwf.com
Food system impacts on biodiversity loss Page 1 Research Paper Food system impacts on
biodiversity loss Three levers for food system transformation in support of nature Tim G. Benton …

Mutilation of the tree of life via mass extinction of animal genera

G Ceballos, PR Ehrlich - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Mass extinctions during the past 500 million y rapidly removed branches from the
phylogenetic tree of life and required millions of years for evolution to generate functional …

More losers than winners: investigating Anthropocene defaunation through the diversity of population trends

C Finn, F Grattarola, D Pincheira‐Donoso - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Combating ecosystem collapse from the tropics to the Antarctic

DM Bergstrom, BC Wienecke… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, collapse of ecosystems—potentially irreversible change to ecosystem structure,
composition and function—imperils biodiversity, human health and well‐being. We examine …

[HTML][HTML] Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation

D Tuia, B Kellenberger, S Beery, BR Costelloe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Inexpensive and accessible sensors are accelerating data acquisition in animal ecology.
These technologies hold great potential for large-scale ecological understanding, but are …