30× 30 biodiversity gains rely on national coordination

I Eckert, A Brown, D Caron, F Riva, LJ Pollock - nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Global commitments to protect 30% of land by 2030 present an opportunity to combat the
biodiversity crisis, but reducing extinction risk will depend on where countries expand …

Understanding local adaptation to prepare populations for climate change

MH Meek, EA Beever, S Barbosa, SW Fitzpatrick… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Adaptation within species to local environments is widespread in nature. Better
understanding this local adaptation is critical to conserving biodiversity. However …

Biodiversity losses associated with global warming of 1.5 to 4 C above pre-industrial levels in six countries

J Price, R Warren, N Forstenhäusler - Climatic Change, 2024 - Springer
We quantify the projected impacts of alternative levels of global warming upon the
climatically determined geographic ranges of plants and vertebrates in six countries (China …

The UK's 25 Year Plan for the Environment and the Convention on Biological Diversity: Gaps, Synergies and Opportunities

NA Brummitt, AC Araujo - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
The UK government's 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment (25YEP), published in 2018,
together with annual progress reports and subsequent periodic revisions, represent the most …

Assessing the potential risks of climate change on the natural capital of six countries resulting from global warming of 1.5 to 4° C above pre-industrial levels

J Price, R Warren, N Forstenhäusler, R Jenkins… - Climatic Change, 2024 - Springer
We present the results from a new framework providing an assessment of how climate
change risks to natural capital accrue with warming of 1.5–4° C in six countries (China …

Modeling complex species-environment relationships through spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models

JW Doser, AO Finley, SP Saunders, M Kéry… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2024 - Springer
Occupancy models are frequently used by ecologists to quantify spatial variation in species
distributions while accounting for observational biases in the collection of detection …

Artificial intelligence (BirdNET) supplements manual methods to maximize bird species richness from acoustic data sets generated from regional monitoring

L Ware, CL Mahon, L McLeod… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Processing methods that maximize species richness from acoustic recordings obtained from
regional monitoring programs can increase detections of uncommon, rare, and cryptic …

Risk from future climate change to Pakistan's protected area network: A composite analysis for hotspot identification

MT Siddique, JG Molinos - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
As climate change becomes a primary driver of global ecosystem deterioration and
biodiversity loss, protected areas (PAs) are posed to play a crucial conservation role. At a …

Choice of prioritization method impacts recommendations for climate‐informed bird conservation in the United States

L Taylor, SP Saunders, JX Wu, BL Bateman… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate‐informed spatial planning is urgently needed to guide initiatives aimed at both
conserving biodiversity as a whole (eg protection of 30% of lands and waters by 2030) and …

The Mogollon Highlands Ecoregion of the American Southwest: A Neglected Center of Ecological Diversity

TL Fleischner, ML Floyd, J Rack, D Hanna… - Natural Areas …, 2024 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The Mogollon Highlands of Arizona and New Mexico is a uniquely biodiverse
ecoregion that has been previously neglected by scientific studies. Here, we delineate, map …