We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back — ScienceDaily
▻https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170531133301.htm
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Both ominous and hopeful, a new report paints a picture of the value of biodiversity, the threats it faces and the window of opportunity we have to save species before it’s too late.
▻https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5460751/pdf/emss-73029.pdf
Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales
Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez, Michel Loreau, Jane Cowles, Sandra Díaz, Andy Hector, Georgina M. Mace, David A. Wardle, Mary I. O’Connor, J. Emmett Duffy, Lindsay A. Turnbull, Patrick L. Thompson & Anne Larigauderie
Nature 546: 65–72, 1 June 2017
doi:10.1038/nature22899
▻https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v546/n7656/full/nature22899.html
Biodiversity enhances many of nature’s benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth’s history. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, especially at the large temporal and spatial scales that are most relevant for policy and conservation.
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