BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and
population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly …

Anthropocene defaunation, the global extinction of faunal species and populations and the
decline in abundance of individuals within populations, has been predominantly …

Biologists have long assumed that the oceans are too vast, and theirs inhabitants too profilic,
for humans ever to extinguish any marine species. But now that assumption is under …

Abstract In 2017, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries signed a second warning
letter to humanity to caution against our continued wholesale destruction of global …

The proliferation of a number of pressures affecting the ocean is leading to a growing
concern that the state of the ocean is compromised, which is driving society into pessimism …

1980s, just when ocean warming was accelerating, as a consequence of a funding crisis
that shifted marine research toward processorientated studies (10). A possible way to bolster …

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Defaunation, the loss or population decline of medium and large native vertebrates
represents a significant threat to the biodiversity of tropical ecosystems. Here we review the …

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