A global deal for nature: guiding principles, milestones, and targets

E Dinerstein, C Vynne, E Sala, AR Joshi… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The Global Deal for Nature (GDN) is a time-bound, science-driven plan to save the diversity
and abundance of life on Earth. Pairing the GDN and the Paris Climate Agreement would …

[HTML][HTML] A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems

DA Keith, JR Ferrer-Paris, E Nicholson, MJ Bishop… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract As the United Nations develops a post-2020 global biodiversity framework for the
Convention on Biological Diversity, attention is focusing on how new goals and targets for …

Maximizing the effectiveness of national commitments to protected area expansion for conserving biodiversity and ecosystem carbon under climate change

C Carroll, JC Ray - Global Change Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global commitments to protected area expansion should prioritize opportunities to protect
climate refugia and ecosystems which store high levels of irrecoverable carbon, as key …

Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity is disproportionately sensitive to land-use and climate change

T Newbold, P Oppenheimer, A Etard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Global biodiversity is undergoing rapid declines, driven in large part by changes to land use
and climate. Global models help us to understand the consequences of environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes

SZ Dobrowski, CE Littlefield, DS Lyons… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Expanding the global protected area network is critical for addressing biodiversity declines
and the climate crisis. However, how climate change will affect ecosystem representation …

Accelerated shifts in terrestrial life zones under rapid climate change

PR Elsen, EC Saxon, BA Simmons… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid climate change is impacting biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human well‐being.
Though the magnitude and trajectory of climate change are becoming clearer, our …

Pyrogeography across the western Palaearctic: A diversity of fire regimes

JG Pausas - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The aim was to characterize fire regimes and estimate fire regime parameters (area
burnt, size, intensity, season, patchiness and pyrodiversity) at broad spatial scales using …

An ecoregion‐based approach to restoring the world's intact large mammal assemblages

C Vynne, J Gosling, C Maney, E Dinerstein… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Assemblages of large mammal species play a disproportionate role in the structure and
composition of natural habitats. Loss of these assemblages destabilizes natural systems …

Impact of prior and projected climate change on US Lyme disease incidence

LI Couper, AJ MacDonald… - Global change biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lyme disease is the most common vector‐borne disease in temperate zones and a growing
public health threat in the United States (US). The life cycles of the tick vectors and …

Saccharomycotina yeasts defy long-standing macroecological patterns

KT David, MC Harrison, DA Opulente… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The Saccharomycotina yeasts (“yeasts” hereafter) are a fungal clade of scientific, economic,
and medical significance. Yeasts are highly ecologically diverse, found across a broad …