Seabird conservation status, threats and priority actions: a global assessment
- J. Croxall, S. Butchart, Phil Taylor
- Environmental ScienceBird conservation international
- 6 February 2012
Overall, seabirds are more threatened than other comparable groups of birds and that their status has deteriorated faster over recent decades, while on land, alien invasive predators, habitat degradation and human disturbance are the main threats.
Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines
- S. Butchart, M. Walpole, R. Watson
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 28 May 2010
Most indicators of the state of biodiversity showed declines, with no significant recent reductions in rate, whereas indicators of pressures on biodiversity showed increases, indicating that the Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2010 targets have not been met.
A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threats and Actions
- N. Salafsky, D. Salzer, D. Wilkie
- Environmental ScienceConservation Biology
- 1 August 2008
Almost all threats and actions could be assigned to the new classification systems, save for some cases lacking detailed information, which provided an improved way of analyzing and comparing information across projects when compared with earlier systems.
Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals
- W. Foden, S. Butchart, G. Mace
- Environmental SciencePLoS ONE
- 12 June 2013
This study presents a framework for assessing three dimensions of climate change vulnerability, namely sensitivity, exposure and adaptive capacity, and finds that high concentration areas for species with traits conferring highest sensitivity and lowest adaptive capacity differ from those of highly exposed species.
The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates
- M. Hoffmann, C. Hilton‐Taylor, S. Stuart
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 10 December 2010
Though the threat of extinction is increasing, overall declines would have been worse in the absence of conservation, and current conservation efforts remain insufficient to offset the main drivers of biodiversity loss in these groups.
Essential Biodiversity Variables
- H. Pereira, S. Ferrier, M. Wegmann
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 18 January 2013
With the first plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) soon under way, partners are developing—and seeking consensus around—Essential Biod diversity Variables (EBVs) that could form the basis of monitoring programs worldwide.
Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change
- M. Pacifici, W. Foden, C. Rondinini
- Environmental Science
- 1 March 2015
The effects of climate change on biodiversity are increasingly well documented, and many methods have been developed to assess species' vulnerability to climatic changes, both ongoing and projected…
Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses
- M. McGeoch, S. Butchart, M. Hoffmann
- Environmental Science
- 1 January 2010
The results provide clear direction for bridging the current divide between information available on IAS and that needed for policy and management for the prevention and control of IAS, and highlight the need for measures to ensure that policy is effectively implemented, such that it translates into reduced IAS pressure and impact on biodiversity beyond 2010.
Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs
- Donal P. McCarthy, P. Donald, S. Butchart
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 16 November 2012
The financial costs for two of the targets relating to protected areas and preventing extinctions are estimated, using data from birds to develop models that can be extrapolated to the costs for biodiversity more broadly.
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change
- S. Díaz, J. Settele, Cynthia N. Zayas
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 13 December 2019
The first integrated global-scale intergovernmental assessment of the status, trends, and future of the links between people and nature provides an unprecedented picture of the extent of the authors' mutual dependence, the breadth and depth of the ongoing and impending crisis, and the interconnectedness among sectors and regions.
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