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 …

Insect declines in the Anthropocene

N Blüthgen, LV Dicks, ML Forister… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Reports of stark declines in invertebrate biomass prompted attention-grabbing news
headlines about an 'insect apocalypse', fuelling public and scientific interest in the insect …

Accelerating environmental flow implementation to bend the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss

AH Arthington, D Tickner, ME McClain… - Environmental …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Environmental flows (e-flows) aim to mitigate the threat of altered hydrological regimes in
river systems and connected waterbodies and are an important component of integrated …

Novel laurel aromatic evergreen biomass derived hierarchical porous carbon nanosheet as sustainable electrode for high performance symmetric supercapacitor

E Taer, R Taslim, M Deraman - Journal of Energy Storage, 2023 - Elsevier
Biomass-based activated carbon with features combinations of 2D nano-structure, 3D
hierarchical porous, and self−/co-doping active heteroatoms have proven excellent …

Protecting and restoring habitats to benefit freshwater biodiversity

ML Piczak, D Perry, SJ Cooke, I Harrison… - Environmental …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Freshwater biodiversity is under great threat across the globe as evidenced by more severe
declines relative to other types of ecosystems. Some of the main stressors responsible for …

The global EPTO database: Worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects

A Grigoropoulou, SA Hamid, R Acosta… - Global ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Motivation Aquatic insects comprise 64% of freshwater animal diversity and are widely used
as bioindicators to assess water quality impairment and freshwater ecosystem health, as …

[HTML][HTML] The human ecology of overshoot: why a major 'population correction'is inevitable

WE Rees - World, 2023 - mdpi.com
Homo sapiens has evolved to reproduce exponentially, expand geographically, and
consume all available resources. For most of humanity's evolutionary history, such …

Towards global insect biomonitoring with frugal methods

M Brydegaard, RD Pedales, V Feng… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
None of the global targets for protecting nature are currently met, although humanity is
critically dependent on biodiversity. A significant issue is the lack of data for most biodiverse …

The Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: How did we get here, and where do we go next?

AC Hughes - Integrative Conservation, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
December 2022 finally saw the historic agreement of the Kunming‐Montreal Global
Biodiversity Framework (KM‐GBF), a landmark framework that sets to halt and reverse …

Ongoing over-exploitation and delayed responses to environmental change highlight the urgency for action to promote vertebrate recoveries by 2030

R Cornford, F Spooner, L McRae… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To safeguard nature, we must understand the drivers of biodiversity loss. Time-delayed
biodiversity responses to environmental changes (ecological lags) are often absent from …