Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

By G. Ceballos, P. Ehrlich, R. Dirzo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, neutral): “…accepted not only among the vertebrate-centric media but also among many vertebrate-centric scienti ﬁ c and conservation organisations and seemingly sometimes even among vertebrate-centric scientists themselves (e.g. Ceballos et al ., 2015, 2017, 2020; McCallum, 2015; Tilman et al ., 2017).”
Ensembl 2021 (2020, background): “At the same time, we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction (14), and loss of biodiversity is entwined with many of the key challenges faced by human society today including pandemic zoonotic diseases, climate change, food security, availability of drugs and vaccines, and renewable energy.”
Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination (2017, background): “Conclusion The biodiversity crisis [3] calls for both the adoption of a common framework for biodiversity monitoring, and the”
State of the world's raptors: Distributions, threats, and conservation recommendations (2018, background): “Among raptor species listed as Least Concern, 38% are declining, further supporting assertions that the biodiversity crisis should be viewed not only regarding species extinction, but also population decline (Hughes et al., 1997; Ceballos et al., 2017).”
Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web (2018, background): “As the sixth mass extinction continues to decimate the world’s biota (137, 138), these data will be crucial to understanding the impact of climate change on terrestrial food webs (139), ecosystem dynamics (140), and biodiversity (8), and to formulating conservation strategies aimed at mitigating the”
Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved (2020, background): “Conservation's historic focus on species extinctions has neglected the loss of diversity as species' ranges shrink and millions of populations disappear (Ceballos et al., 2017).”
Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people (2018, background): “Not only are both marine and terrestrial species experiencing accelerated rates of local andglobal extinction (1–3), but even common species are declining (2, 4, 5).”
Quantifying extinction risk and forecasting the number of impending Australian bird and mammal extinctions (2018, background): “Geographic range is a key criterion for both IUCN and NatureServe protocols, with taxa occupying a greater geographic range generally considered to be more secure than those with restricted ranges (although this canmask population declines: see Ceballos et al. 2017).”
More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas (2017, positive): “This considerably exceeds the estimated decline of 58% in global abundance of wild vertebrates over a 42-year period to 2012 [56, 57].”