How much wetland has the world lost? Long-term and recent trends in global wetland area

By N. Davidson. 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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TheAlliance for Freshwater Life: A global call to unite efforts for freshwater biodiversity science and conservation (2018, background): “An estimated three ‐ quarters of the world's inland natural wetlands were lost during the 20 th century (Davidson, 2014).”
Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration (2017, positive): “Draining of wetlands for agriculture and disease prevention (affecting up to 87% of global wetlands since 1700 CE; Davidson 2014) has contributed to island extinctions (Steadman 1996).”
How Plants Influence Resilience of Salt Marsh and Mangrove Wetlands to Sea-Level Rise (2020, background): “…variation in relative sea-level rise rates and local factors such as plant species, geomorphology, sediment supplies, hydrology, shallow and deep subsidence, and human activities (Cazenave and Le Cozannet 2014; Davidson 2014; Kelleway et al. 2017; Rodriguez et al. 2017; Doughty et al. 2019).”
Essential biodiversity variables for measuring change in global freshwater biodiversity (2017, background): “A globally consistent map of wetland extent is high priority given the rapid rate of wetland decline (estimated at 64–71% since 1900; Davidson, 2014).”
GLOBIO-Aquatic, a global model of human impact on the biodiversity of inland aquatic ecosystems (2015, background): “Recent estimates state that over 60% of wetland area has been converted worldwide since 1900 (Davidson, 2014).”
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change (2019, neutral): “These new data reveal that human actions have directly altered at least 70% of land surface (18, 19); 66% of ocean surface is experiencing increasing cumulative impacts (20); around 85% of wetland area has been lost since the 1700s (21), and 77% of rivers longer than 1000 km no longer flow freely fr”
Global wetland contribution to 2000–2012 atmospheric methane growth rate dynamics (2017, background): “Degradation of global wetlands due to human activities is also a large component in declining wetland function (Petrescu et al 2015, Donchyts et al 2016), and losses of tropical wetland area due to drainage are the highest globally, ranging up to 2% per year (Davidson 2014, Papa et al 2015).”
Reassessing the projections of the World Water Development Report (2019, background): “The rate of wetland loss has been 370% faster during the 20 and early 21st centuries.(49) Since 1900 there has been a loss of 64% to 71% of wetlands.”
Identifying North American freshwater invertebrates using DNA barcodes: are existing COI sequence libraries fit for purpose? (2018, background): “This task is urgent given the globally rapid rate of wetland loss (Davidson 2014).”
Carbon Sequestration by Wetlands: A Critical Review of Enhancement Measures for Climate Change Mitigation (2019, background): “Global wetland studies (Davidson 2014; Mitra et al.”
Remote sensing for wetland classification: a comprehensive review (2018, background): “In an assessment of 189 published scientific studies and reports covering various time periods and geographies, Davidson (2014) reported that as much as 54–57% of the world’s wetlands have been converted or lost and was most accelerated during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.”
Relationships between forest cover and fish diversity in the Amazon River floodplain (2018, background): “Tropical freshwater ecosystems support high biodiversity and important ecosystem services (Davidson, 2014; Tockner & Stanford, 2002).”
Synergistic patterns of threat and the challenges facing global anguillid eel conservation (2015, background): “The reduction in both quality and quantity of freshwater, estuarine and coastal habitat and the resulting loss of biodiversity have become a cause for global concern (Dudgeon et al., 2006; Lotze et al., 2006 and Davidson, 2014).”