Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

(2019) Ben C. Scheele et al.   SCIENCE

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

(2019) Francisco Sánchez-Bayo et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Butterfly abundance declines over 20 years of systematic monitoring in Ohio, USA

(2019) Tyson Wepprich et al.   PLoS One

Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery

(2019) Aelys M. Humphreys et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Insect Declines in the Anthropocene

(2019) David L. Wagner   Annual Review of Entomology

Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people

(2019) Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer et al.   SCIENCE

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Movement and Demography of At-Risk Butterflies: Building Blocks for Conservation

(2018) Cheryl B. Schultz et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web

(2018) Bradford C. Lister et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Distribution of mammal functional diversity in the Neotropical realm: Influence of land-use and extinction risk

(2017) José F. González-Maya et al.   PLoS One

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Fate of the World’s Plants

(2017) Stuart L. Pimm et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

(2017) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   PLoS One

Evolution and Extinction of Land Snails on Oceanic Islands

(2016) Satoshi Chiba et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Life in the Aftermath of Mass Extinctions

(2015) Pincelli Hull   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sea otters, kelp forests, and the extinction of Steller’s sea cow

(2015) James A. Estes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Secondary extinctions of biodiversity

(2014) Jedediah F. Brodie et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Cascading Effects of Bird Functional Extinction Reduce Pollination and Plant Density

(2011) S. H. Anderson et al.   SCIENCE

Tropical cloud forest climate variability and the demise of the Monteverde golden toad

(2010) K. J. Anchukaitis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna

(2008) T. M. Palmer et al.   SCIENCE

Commonness, population depletion and conservation biology

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