A Requiem for Biodiversity in the Age of Humans@@@The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth

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Global Rates of Habitat Loss and Implications for Amphibian Conservation (2007, methodology): “These data have been compiled from an amalgam of sources that represent a wide variance in data availability, consistency, and quality (United Nations Development Pro gramme et al., 2000; Pimm, 2001).”
Sustaining the Ark: the challenges faced by zoos in maintaining viable populations (2009, background): “Habitat loss and unsustainable use remain significant threats to wildlife (Pimm, 2001; Wilson, 2002; Smith, 2003).”
Crying wolf, crying foul, or crying shame: alien salmonids and a biodiversity crisis in the southern cool-temperate galaxioid fishes? (2006, background): “There is reference to these extinctions as a biodiversity crisis, or the third great extinction episode in earth history (Brown 1989; Pimm 2001).”
Migrating shorebirds as integrative sentinels of global environmental change (2004, background): “At present, six billion humans consume 42% of the primary plant production, take 50% of the accessible water supply and dominate most of the fertile land (Vitousek et al . 1986, Pimm 2001 ).”