Biodiversity losses and conservation responses in the Anthropocene

Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China

(2017) Weihua Xu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Prehistorical and historical declines in Caribbean coral reef accretion rates driven by loss of parrotfish

(2017) Katie L. Cramer et al.   Nature Communications

The last frontiers of wilderness: Tracking loss of intact forest landscapes from 2000 to 2013

(2017) Peter Potapov et al.   Science Advances

Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

(2016) Sean L. Maxwell et al.   NATURE

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

Biodiversity in the Anthropocene: prospects and policy

(2016) Nathalie Seddon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rapid human-induced landscape transformation in Madagascar at the end of the first millennium of the Common Era

(2016) Stephen J. Burns et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

How can higher-yield farming help to spare nature?

(2016) B. Phalan et al.   SCIENCE

A global map of roadless areas and their conservation status

(2016) Pierre L. Ibisch et al.   SCIENCE

The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people

(2016) Brett R. Scheffers et al.   SCIENCE

Balancing hydropower and biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo, and Mekong

(2016) K. O. Winemiller et al.   SCIENCE

Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

(2016) Tim Newbold et al.   SCIENCE

Sufficiency and Suitability of Global Biodiversity Indicators for Monitoring Progress to 2020 Targets

(2016) Chris J. Mcowen et al.   Conservation Letters

Persistent Disparities between Recent Rates of Habitat Conversion and Protection and Implications for Future Global Conservation Targets

(2016) James E.M. Watson et al.   Conservation Letters

Status and Trends in Global Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital: Assessing Progress Toward Aichi Biodiversity Target 14

(2016) Ellen Shepherd et al.   Conservation Letters

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

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

Wildlife population trends in protected areas predicted by national socio-economic metrics and body size

(2016) Megan D. Barnes et al.   Nature Communications

Getting Road Expansion on the Right Track: A Framework for Smart Infrastructure Planning in the Mekong

(2016) Andrew Balmford et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Reducing the global environmental impacts of rapid infrastructure expansion

(2015) William F. Laurance et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Delayed biodiversity change: no time to waste

(2015) Franz Essl et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Marine foods sourced from farther as their use of global ocean primary production increases

(2015) Reg A. Watson et al.   Nature Communications

Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean

(2015) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   Nature Communications

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

(2015) C. Bello et al.   Science Advances

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

(2015) G. Ceballos et al.   Science Advances

Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia

(2014) Stephan Getzin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Whales as marine ecosystem engineers

(2014) Joe Roman et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Tracking the rapid loss of tidal wetlands in the Yellow Sea

(2014) Nicholas J Murray et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A global strategy for road building

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

A High-Resolution Chronology of Rapid Forest Transitions following Polynesian Arrival in New Zealand

(2014) David B. McWethy et al.   PLoS One

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes

(2014) Guillaume Chapron et al.   SCIENCE

A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

(2014) D. P. Tittensor et al.   SCIENCE

Slowing Amazon deforestation through public policy and interventions in beef and soy supply chains

(2014) D. Nepstad et al.   SCIENCE

Reversal of Fish Stock Decline in the Northeast Atlantic

(2013) Paul G. Fernandes et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Temporal Change in Functional Richness and Evenness in the Eastern African Plio-Pleistocene Carnivoran Guild

(2013) Lars Werdelin et al.   PLoS One

Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

(2013) A. Waldron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific

(2013) R. P. Duncan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Landscape-scale responses of birds to agri-environment management: a test of the English Environmental Stewardship scheme

(2012) David J. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

How national context, project design, and local community characteristics influence success in community-based conservation projects

(2012) J. S. Brooks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs

(2012) D. P. McCarthy et al.   SCIENCE

Status and Solutions for the World's Unassessed Fisheries

(2012) C. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

(2011) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline?

(2011) David Kleijn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biodiversity and ecosystem services: a multilayered relationship

(2011) Georgina M. Mace et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

(2010) Ian D. Craigie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Linking global climate and temperature variability to widespread amphibian declines putatively caused by disease

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

Last Stand on the Yangtze

(2010) R. Stone   SCIENCE

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

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

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

Historical baselines for large marine animals

(2009) Heike K. Lotze et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

(2008) B BROOK et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION