Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

(2011) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Predicting spatially explicit coral reef fish abundance, richness and Shannon–Weaver index from habitat characteristics

(2011) Jesús Ernesto Arias-González et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Vulnerability of mires under climate change: implications for nature conservation and climate change adaptation

(2011) Franz Essl et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A food web perspective on large herbivore community limitation

(2011) Hervé Fritz et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Ecosystem states: Creating a data-derived, ecosystem-scale ecological response model that is explicit in space and time

(2011) Rebecca E. Lester et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Invasional meltdown: Invader–invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion

(2011) Peter T Green et al.   ECOLOGY

Lessons in modelling and management of marine ecosystems: the Atlantis experience

(2011) Elizabeth A Fulton et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Regional sea level trends in New Zealand

(2011) John Hannah et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Species–area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss

(2011) Fangliang He et al.   NATURE

Plant Diversity Surpasses Plant Functional Groups and Plant Productivity as Driver of Soil Biota in the Long Term

(2011) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   PLoS One

Dynamics of Murray-Darling floodplain forests under multiple stressors: The past, present, and future of an Australian icon

(2011) Ralph Mac Nally et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Keystone Predation and Plant Species Coexistence: The Role of Carnivore Hunting Mode

(2010) V. Calcagno et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Conservation planning with dynamic threats: The role of spatial design and priority setting for species’ persistence

(2010) Piero Visconti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Indirect evidence for an extinction debt of grassland butterflies half century after habitat loss

(2010) Anu Sang et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

State-and-transition modelling for Adaptive Management of native woodlands

(2010) L. Rumpff et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Establishing IUCN Red List Criteria for Threatened Ecosystems

(2010) JON PAUL RODRÍGUEZ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Fire-Mediated Forest Encroachment in Response to Climatic and Land-Use Change in Subtropical Andean Treelines

(2010) Ezequiel Aráoz et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Direct Measurement Versus Surrogate Indicator Species for Evaluating Environmental Change and Biodiversity Loss

(2010) David B. Lindenmayer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Surface Area and the Seabed Area, Volume, Depth, Slope, and Topographic Variation for the World’s Seas, Oceans, and Countries

(2010) Mark John Costello et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Effect of fire weather, fuel age and topography on patterns of remnant vegetation following a large fire event in southern California, USA

(2010) Nell Blodgett et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Basic ecological theory can inform habitat restoration for woodland birds

(2010) Neil Huth et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Global Trends of Sea Ice: Small-Scale Roughness and Refractive Index

(2010) Sungwook Hong et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Tracking Oil Slicks and Predicting their Trajectories Using Remote Sensors and Models: Case Studies of the Sea Princess and Deepwater Horizon Oil Spills

(2010) Victor Klemas   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Macrohabitat associations of fishes in shallow waters of the Detroit River

(2010) N. W. R. Lapointe et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Genetic diversity and connectivity of deep-sea hydrothermal vent metapopulations

(2010) ROBERT C. VRIJENHOEK   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecological impacts of buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliarisL.) invasion in central Australia – does field evidence support a fire-invasion feedback?

(2010) Georgia Miller et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Effects of Pollution on Marine Organisms

(2010) Alan J. Mearns et al.   WATER ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH

Vascular plant species richness on wetland remnants is determined by both area and habitat heterogeneity

(2009) Jianmin Shi et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

New method and criteria for national assessments of threatened habitat types

(2009) Tytti Kontula et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A new approach and case study for estimating extent and rates of habitat loss for ecological communities

(2009) David A. Keith et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Assessing the Threat Status of Ecological Communities

(2009) EMILY NICHOLSON et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Browsing and fire interact to suppress tree density in an African savanna

(2009) A. Carla Staver et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Standards for associations and alliances of the U.S. National Vegetation Classification

(2009) Michael D. Jennings et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

A global synthesis of plant extinction rates in urban areas

(2009) Amy K. Hahs et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Incorporating between-expert uncertainty into state-and-transition simulation models for forest restoration

(2009) Christina A. Czembor et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Monitoring and evaluating the ecological integrity of forest ecosystems

(2009) Geraldine L Tierney et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Distinguishing marine habitat classification concepts for ecological data management

(2009) MJ Costello   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Causes and consequences of marine mammal population declines in southwest Alaska: a food-web perspective

(2009) J.A. Estes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Linking biodiversity and ecosystems: towards a unifying ecological theory

(2009) M. Loreau   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flattening of Caribbean coral reefs: region-wide declines in architectural complexity

(2009) L. Alvarez-Filip et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The interpretation, assessment and conservation of ecological communities

(2009) David A. Keith   ECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION

Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

(2008) GEORGINA M. MACE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Exponential Decline of Deep-Sea Ecosystem Functioning Linked to Benthic Biodiversity Loss

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing the global threat of invasive species to marine biodiversity

(2008) Jennifer L Molnar et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Optimal investment in conservation of species

(2008) Michael A. McCarthy et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

A process for creating multimetric indices for large-scale aquatic surveys

(2008) John L. Stoddard et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

An operational model for mainstreaming ecosystem services for implementation

(2008) R. M. Cowling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nontrophic Interactions, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Functioning: An Interaction Web Model

(2007) Alexandra Goudard et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Commonness, population depletion and conservation biology

(2007) K GASTON et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION