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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A framework for complex climate change risk assessment

NP Simpson, KJ Mach, A Constable, J Hess, R Hogarth… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of
climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic …

Impact of climate change on biodiversity loss: global evidence

MS Habibullah, BH Din, SH Tan, H Zahid - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
The present study investigates the impact of climate change on biodiversity loss using global
data consisting of 115 countries. In this study, we measure biodiversity loss using data on …

Global protected areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change

C Mi, L Ma, M Yang, X Li, S Meiri, U Roll… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) are the cornerstone of biodiversity conservation. Here, we
collated distributional data for> 14,000 (~ 70% of) species of amphibians and reptiles …

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 …

Insects and recent climate change

CA Halsch, AM Shapiro, JA Fordyce… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Insects have diversified through more than 450 million y of Earth's changeable climate, yet
rapidly shifting patterns of temperature and precipitation now pose novel challenges as they …

Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

AJ Reid, AK Carlson, IF Creed, EJ Eliason… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the 12 years since Dudgeon et al.(2006) reviewed major pressures on freshwater
ecosystems, the biodiversity crisis in the world's lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams and …

Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

MK Peters, A Hemp, T Appelhans, JN Becker, C Behler… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Agriculture and the exploitation of natural resources have transformed tropical mountain
ecosystems across the world, and the consequences of these transformations for …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the combined effects of climate change and other local human stressors on the marine environment

E Gissi, E Manea, AD Mazaris, S Fraschetti… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change (CC) is a key, global driver of change of marine ecosystems. At local and
regional scales, other local human stressors (LS) can interact with CC and modify its effects …