Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction?

Threats to biodiversity from cumulative human impacts in one of North America's last wildlife frontiers

(2018) Nancy Shackelford et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Imminent extinction in the wild of the world’s largest amphibian

(2018) Samuel T. Turvey et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

(2018) Felisa A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

Determining threatened species distributions in the face of limited data: Spatial conservation prioritization for the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus )

(2018) Shu Chen et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The paradoxical extinction of the most charismatic animals

(2018) Franck Courchamp et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Global forest loss disproportionately erodes biodiversity in intact landscapes

(2017) Matthew G. Betts et al.   NATURE

Extinction risk is most acute for the world’s largest and smallest vertebrates

(2017) William J. Ripple et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Megafaunal Impacts on Structure and Function of Ocean Ecosystems

(2016) James A. Estes et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Addressing knowledge gaps in reptile conservation

(2016) Reid Tingley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

(2016) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world's mammals

(2016) William J. Ripple et al.   Royal Society Open Science

An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles

(2015) Nathan P. Myhrvold et al.   ECOLOGY

The bushmeat and food security nexus: A global account of the contributions, conundrums and ethical collisions

(2015) Donna-Mareè Cawthorn et al.   FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL

A most unusual (super)predator

(2015) B. Worm   SCIENCE

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

The unique ecology of human predators

(2015) C. T. Darimont et al.   SCIENCE

Collapse of the world's largest herbivores

(2015) W. J. Ripple et al.   Science Advances

Accelerated modern human-induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

Predator decline leads to decreased stability in a coastal fish community

(2014) Gregory L. Britten et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Influence of Culture on the International Management of Shark Finning

(2014) Andrea Dell’Apa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change

(2014) C. Sandom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays

(2014) Nicholas K Dulvy et al.   eLife

Recovery Trends in Marine Mammal Populations

(2013) Anna M. Magera et al.   PLoS One

Resilience and Recovery of Overexploited Marine Populations

(2013) P. Neubauer et al.   SCIENCE

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

(2012) Monika Böhm et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

The Forgotten Megafauna

(2009) Dennis M. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Rebuilding Global Fisheries

(2009) B. Worm et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting ecological consequences of marine top predator declines

(2008) Michael R. Heithaus et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION