eprintid: 10101872
rev_number: 28
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datestamp: 2020-06-22 11:24:30
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type: article
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creators_name: Norris, K
creators_name: Terry, A
creators_name: Hansford, JP
creators_name: Turvey, ST
title: Biodiversity conservation and the earth system – mind the gap
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C08
divisions: D09
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F57
keywords: biodiversity, megafauna, ecological function, biome, Earth system
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: One of the most striking human impacts on global biodiversity is the ongoing depletion of large vertebrates from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Recent work suggests this loss of megafauna can affect processes at biome or Earth system scales with potentially serious impacts on ecosystem structure and function, ecosystem services, and biogeochemical cycles. We argue that our contemporary approach to biodiversity conservation focuses on spatial scales that are too small to adequately address these impacts. We advocate a new global approach to address this conservation gap, which must enable megafaunal populations to recover to functionally relevant densities. We conclude that re-establishing biome and Earth system functions needs to become an urgent global priority for conservation science and policy.
date: 2020-10
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.06.010
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1791127
doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.06.010
lyricists_name: Hansford, James Peter
lyricists_name: Turvey, Samuel
lyricists_id: JHANS58
lyricists_id: STURV99
actors_name: Austen, Jennifer
actors_id: JAUST66
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
volume: 35
number: 10
pagerange: 919-926
citation:        Norris, K;    Terry, A;    Hansford, JP;    Turvey, ST;      (2020)    Biodiversity conservation and the earth system – mind the gap.                   Trends in Ecology and Evolution , 35  (10)   pp. 919-926.    10.1016/j.tree.2020.06.010 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.06.010>.       Green open access   
 
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