Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

S Díaz, J Settele, ES Brondízio, HT Ngo, J Agard… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Human actions have long been known to drive declines in nature, and there
is growing awareness of how globalization means that these drivers increasingly act at a …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the impact of contaminants of emerging concern on fish and invertebrates physiology in the Mediterranean Sea

F Impellitteri, CR Multisanti, P Rusanova, G Piccione… - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Consumption and excessive use of substances or items that are taken for
granted in our daily lives such as personal care products, plastic objects, and medicines …

[HTML][HTML] Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

NK Dulvy, N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, RA Pollom… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
The scale and drivers of marine biodiversity loss are being revealed by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment process. We present the first …

Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays

N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, PM Kyne, RB Sherley… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Overfishing is the primary cause of marine defaunation, yet declines in and increasing
extinction risks of individual species are difficult to measure, particularly for the largest …

[HTML][HTML] More than half of data deficient species predicted to be threatened by extinction

J Borgelt, M Dorber, MA Høiberg, F Verones - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is essential for practical and theoretical
efforts to protect biodiversity. However, species classified as “Data Deficient”(DD) regularly …

Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks

MA MacNeil, DD Chapman, M Heupel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Decades of overexploitation have devastated shark populations, leaving considerable doubt
as to their ecological status,. Yet much of what is known about sharks has been inferred from …

Governing for transformative change across the biodiversity–climate–society nexus

U Pascual, PD McElwee, SE Diamond, HT Ngo… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Transformative governance is key to addressing the global environmental crisis. We explore
how transformative governance of complex biodiversity–climate–society interactions can be …

Overfishing and habitat loss drive range contraction of iconic marine fishes to near extinction

HF Yan, PM Kyne, RW Jabado, RH Leeney… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Extinctions on land are often inferred from sparse sightings over time, but this technique is ill-
suited for wide-ranging species. We develop a space-for-time approach to track the spatial …

Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America

RE Reis, JS Albert, F Di Dario… - Journal of fish …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The freshwater and marine fish faunas of South America are the most diverse on Earth, with
current species richness estimates standing above 9100 species. In addition, over the last …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges and priorities in shark and ray conservation

NK Dulvy, CA Simpfendorfer, LNK Davidson… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Sharks, rays, and chimaeras (Class Chondrichthyes; herein 'sharks') are the earliest extant
jawed vertebrates and exhibit some of the greatest functional diversity of all vertebrates …