Defaunation in the Anthropocene

By R. Dirzo, H. Young, M. Galetti, G. Ceballos, Nick J B Isaac, B. Collen. Science, 2014

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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The thin edge of the wedge: extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes (2019, background): “One of the defining features of the Anthropocene will be the loss of biodiversity, both on land and in the oceans (Dirzo et al., 2014; McCauley et al., 2015).”
Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere (2015, background): “Human societies have caused widespread species extinctions (Barnosky 2008, Dirzo et al. 2014, Pimm et al. 2014) and species invasions (Vitousek et al. 1997a, Ricciardi 2007, Lockwood et al. 2013), and changes in the local and global patterns of net primary production (Vitousek et al. 1986,…”
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines (2017, background): “This suggests that, even if there was not ample sign that the crisis extends far beyond that group of animals, today’s planetary defaunation of vertebrates will itself promote cascading catastrophic effects on ecosystems, worsening the annihilation of nature (2, 3, 46).”
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation (2020, background): “There is compelling evidence of a global biodiversity crisis caused by human activities, sometimes considered the sixth mass extinction (Pimm et al., 1995; Barnosky et al., 2011; Dirzo et al., 2014).”
The Concept of the Anthropocene (2017, background): “” (“the anxious semiotics of sound in a human-dominated world”) (98), through to defaunation (99), tropical forests (100), plant diversity (101) or soil (102).”
Panda Downlisted but not Out of the Woods (2018, background): “…trends are unidirectionally downward (an average a 28% reduction in individual abundance across all species of vertebrates in the last 40 years (Dirzo et al. 2014)) and nearly one-fifth of the world’s extant vertebrates are considered Threatened (Critically Endangered, Endangered, or…”
Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems (2015, background): “Increasingly, the simple theoretical prediction that fragmentation reduces species richness is being modified to account for species identity through models that focus on how species vary in their traits ( 4 , 21 , 36 , 48 , 57 , 58 ).”
Historic and prehistoric human‐driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns (2015, result): “The results of the present study exemplify the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2002), a human-dominated epoch in which few biological patterns and processes are not substantially modified by humans (Dirzo et al., 2014; Helmus et al., 2014).”
Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians. (2015, background): “For mammals these questions have generally been analyzed in associa- tion with body size, with mammalian megafauna (defined as having a body mass either ≥ 10 kg or ≥ 44 kg [100 lbs]) much more likely to have been overexploited by humans (Dirzo et al. 2004; Barnosky et al. 2004; Sandom et al. 2014).”
Drones count wildlife more accurately and precisely than humans (2017, background): “Wildlife populations are undergoing dramatic declines in response to a wide range of human-induced threats (Dirzo et al. 2014; Tilman et al. 2017).”
The threat of invasive species to IUCN-listed critically endangered species: A systematic review (2021, background): “Current and projected rates for the extinction of species exceed normal geological background rates by several orders of magnitude, and are considered to constitute the ongoing sixth major extinction event (e.g. Barnosky et al., 2011; Dirzo et al., 2014; Ceballos et al., 2017).”
The impact of hunting on tropical mammal and bird populations (2017, background): “reaching cascading effects, including disruptions in seed dispersal mutualisms and a decline in total biomass (9, 10).”
Rewilding: Science, Practice, and Politics (2015, background): “Overall, recent research supports the idea that animals perform several vital ecosystem services globally, and their absence would cause a reduction of these services (90, 91).”
Roles of Raptors in a Changing World: From Flagships to Providers of Key Ecosystem Services (2016, background): “The rampant humanization of the planet following the industrial revolution has led to a new epoch, the “anthropocene”, which involves the rapid disappearance of species, the so-called “sixth extinction” (Barnosky et al., 2011; Dirzo et al., 2014).”
An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? (2020, background): “Monitoring wildlife populations is more important than ever, given the imperiled status of many species around the world, and the rapid changes to the earth's climate and landcover (Dirzo et al., 2014).”