Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers

By S. Maxwell, Richard A. Fuller, T. Brooks, James E. M. Watson. Nature, 2016

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Subfields: Ecology

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Global effects of land use on biodiversity differ among functional groups (2020, background): “This result 295 could be a signal of hunting by humans, which is a major pressure particularly on vertebrate 296 biodiversity (Maxwell et al., 2016), and which may be facilitated by the increased 297 accessibility to human-used areas.”
The global extent of biodiversity offset implementation under no net loss policies (2018, methodology): “We excluded any so-called offset projects that were not associated, either explicitly or implicitly, with an NNL objective; that is, they: (1) provide additional substitution or replacement for unavoidable negative impacts of human activity on biodiversity; (2) involve measurable, comparable biodive”
Further evidence for a global decline of the entomofauna (2020, background): “Other sources of evidence suggest that insect declines are likely to be more dramatic in tropical regions (Janzen and Hallwachs 2019), where rampant deforestation and surging levels of pesticide use in agriculture certainly exert disproportionately negative impacts on insect populations (Pretty and ”
Livestock grazing in protected areas and its effects on large mammals in the Hyrcanian forest, Iran (2018, background): “Livestock grazing, logging and poaching are among the main drivers of biodiversity loss but their effects can be both synergistic and contrasting across different species (Brodie et al., 2015; Maxwell et al., 2016).”
Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “Deforestation, conversion of wildlands into agriculture and silviculture, residential and commercial development,and extractive land uses collectively make up the greatest current threat to global biodiversity (84, 107, 118, 201).”
Primate responses to anthropogenic habitat disturbance: A pantropical meta-analysis (2017, background): “Nearly 80% of all currently threatened species are affected by more than a single major threat (Maxwell et al., 2016), so efficient conservation strategies must consider the synergistic effects among these threats (Brook et al., 2008).”