Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts

Rewilding complex ecosystems

(2019) Andrea Perino et al.   SCIENCE

A full and authentic reckoning of species’ ranges for conservation: response to Akçakaya et al. 2018

(2019) Eric W. Sanderson   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Defining the indigenous ranges of species to account for geographic and taxonomic variation in the history of human impacts: reply to Sanderson 2019

(2019) P. J. Stephenson et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Using historical and palaeoecological data to inform ambitious species recovery targets

(2019) Molly Grace et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Charismatic species of the past: Biases in reporting of large mammals in historical written sources

(2018) Sophie Monsarrat et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Quantifying species recovery and conservation success to develop an IUCN Green List of Species

(2018) H. Resit Akçakaya et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Shifting baseline syndrome: causes, consequences, and implications

(2018) Masashi Soga et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Forgotten Mediterranean calving grounds of grey and North Atlantic right whales: evidence from Roman archaeological records

(2018) Ana S. L. Rodrigues et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tracking the global footprint of fisheries

(2018) David A. Kroodsma et al.   SCIENCE

Europe’s lost forests: a pollen-based synthesis for the last 11,000 years

(2018) N. Roberts et al.   Scientific Reports

Climate-driven ecological stability as a globally shared cause of Late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions: the Plaids and Stripes Hypothesis

(2018) Daniel H. Mann et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Signatures of human-commensalism in the house sparrow genome

(2018) Mark Ravinet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The “Cobra-preta” of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea, is a new species of Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata: Elapidae)

(2017) LUIS M. P. CERÍACO et al.   ZOOTAXA

Setting temporal baselines for biodiversity: the limits of available monitoring data for capturing the full impact of anthropogenic pressures

(2017) Jean-Baptiste Mihoub et al.   Scientific Reports

Resurrection of the Island Rule: Human-Driven Extinctions Have Obscured a Basic Evolutionary Pattern

(2016) Søren Faurby et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A spatially explicit estimate of the prewhaling abundance of the endangered North Atlantic right whale

(2016) Sophie Monsarrat et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Estimating fisheries reference points from catch and resilience

(2016) Rainer Froese et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Large numbers of vertebrates began rapid population decline in the late 19th century

(2016) Haipeng Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

(2016) Yadvinder Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

Review of status, threats, and conservation management options for the endangered Indus River blind dolphin

(2015) Gill T. Braulik et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Importance of Surprising Results and Best Practices in Historical Ecology

(2015) Loren McClenachan et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Historical summer distribution of the endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis): a hypothesis based on environmental preferences of a congeneric species

(2015) Sophie Monsarrat et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Historic and prehistoric human-driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns

(2015) S. Faurby et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

(2015) Jens-Christian Svenning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bowhead whales, and not right whales, were the primary target of 16th- to 17th-century Basque Whalers in the Western North Atlantic

(2014) B.A. McLeod et al.   ARCTIC

The changing role of history in restoration ecology

(2014) Eric Higgs et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems

(2013) David A. Keith et al.   PLoS One

Ancient DNA reveals that bowhead whale lineages survived Late Pleistocene climate change and habitat shifts

(2013) Andrew D. Foote et al.   Nature Communications

Integrating Paleobiology, Archeology, and History to Inform Biological Conservation

(2012) TORBEN C. RICK et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Spatial and Seasonal Distribution of American Whaling and Whales in the Age of Sail

(2012) Tim D. Smith et al.   PLoS One

Pre-European Maori exploitation of marine resources in two New Zealand case study areas: species range and temporal change

(2011) I Smith   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND

Range contraction in large pelagic predators

(2011) B. Worm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapidly Shifting Baselines in Yangtze Fishing Communities and Local Memory of Extinct Species

(2010) SAMUEL T. TURVEY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Human impacts on ancient shellfish: a 10,000 year record from San Miguel Island, California

(2008) Jon M. Erlandson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge

(2008) J. Schipper et al.   SCIENCE