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- Title:
- Defaunation in the Anthropocene
- Stanford University
- University of California Santa Barbara
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
- University College London
- 0036-8075
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
- Fundacao para o Desenvolvimento do UNESP (FUNDUNESP)
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
- NERC
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- NSF
- We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly, human impacts on animal biodiversity are an under-recognized form of global environmental change. Among terrestrial vertebrates, 322 species have become extinct since 1500, and populations of the remaining species show 25% average decline in abundance. Invertebrate patterns are equally dire: 67% of monitored populations show 45% mean abundance decline. Such animal declines will cascade onto ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Much remains unknown about this “Anthropocene defaunation”; these knowledge gaps hinder our capacity to predict and limit defaunation impacts. Clearly, however, defaunation is both a pervasive component of the planet’s sixth mass extinction and also a major driver of global ecological change.
- 25-Jul-2014
- Science. Washington: Amer Assoc Advancement Science, v. 345, n. 6195, p. 401-406, 2014.
- 401-406
- Amer Assoc Advancement Science
- Decomposition
- Defaunation
- Ecosystem
- Environmental aspects and related phenomena
- Environmental change
- Environmental impact
- Extinct species
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1251817
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