Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi

E Nic Lughadha, SP Bachman, TCC Leão… - Plants, People …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural
solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges …

The macroecology of landscape ecology

C Banks-Leite, MG Betts, RM Ewers, CDL Orme… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
One of landscape ecology's main goals is to unveil how biodiversity is impacted by habitat
transformation. However, the discipline suffers from significant context dependency in …

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

BBN Strassburg, A Iribarrem, HL Beyer, CL Cordeiro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance

S Manes, MJ Costello, H Beckett, A Debnath… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change affects life at global scales and across systems but is of special concern in
areas that are disproportionately rich in biological diversity and uniqueness. Using a meta …

Atlas of Brazilian snakes: verified point-locality maps to mitigate the Wallacean shortfall in a megadiverse snake fauna

CC Nogueira, AJS Argôlo, V Arzamendia… - South American Journal …, 2019 - BioOne
Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

A climate risk index for marine life

DG Boyce, DP Tittensor, C Garilao, S Henson… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change is impacting virtually all marine life. Adaptation strategies will require a
robust understanding of the risks to species and ecosystems and how those propagate to …

[HTML][HTML] Relocating croplands could drastically reduce the environmental impacts of global food production

RM Beyer, F Hua, PA Martin, A Manica… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Agricultural production has replaced natural ecosystems across the planet, becoming a
major driver of carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and freshwater consumption. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] 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
Land-use has transformed ecosystems over three quarters of the terrestrial surface, with
massive repercussions on biodiversity. Land-use intensity is known to contribute to the …

[HTML][HTML] Diurnal temperature range as a key predictor of plants' elevation ranges globally

A Gallou, AS Jump, JS Lynn, R Field, SDH Irl… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A prominent hypothesis in ecology is that larger species ranges are found in more variable
climates because species develop broader environmental tolerances, predicting a positive …

[HTML][HTML] Historical and projected future range sizes of the world's mammals, birds, and amphibians

RM Beyer, A Manica - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Species' vulnerability to extinction is strongly impacted by their geographical range size.
Formulating effective conservation strategies therefore requires a better understanding of …