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A suite of essential biodiversity variables for detecting critical biodiversity change [PDF]

Biological Reviews, 2018
ABSTRACTKey global indicators of biodiversity decline, such as the IUCN Red List Index and the Living Planet Index, have relatively long assessment intervals. This means they, due to their inherent structure, function as late‐warning indicators that are retrospective, rather than prospective.
D. Schmeller, Lauren V. Weatherdon, A. Loyau, A. Bondeau, L. Brotóns, N. Brummitt, I. Geijzendorffer, P. Haase, M. Kuemmerlen, Corinne Martin, J. Mihoub, D. Rocchini, H. Saarenmaa, S. Stoll, E. Regan   +14 more
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Essential Biodiversity for Understanding Change

Biodiversity Information Science and Standards, 2022
The biodiversity crisis we are experiencing requires more than ever the establishment of an observation and monitoring system to help us understand where we have the greatest problems, to inform actions to help halt and reverse biodiversity loss in those places, and to anticipate the impact of our future actions.
Pereira, Henrique, Fernández, Néstor, Fernandez, Miguel   +2 more
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Valuing changes in forest biodiversity [PDF]

Ecological Economics, 2009
The paper attempts to improve current understanding of the economic value of biodiversity. Instead of the prevailing approach of using only one indicator of biodiversity (typically, species richness) we provide evidence that it is possible to value changes in a number of attributes which describe complex characteristics of biodiversity, based on ...
Czajkowski, Mikolaj, Buszko-Briggs, Malgorzata, Hanley, Nicholas   +2 more
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Molecular Weevil Identification Project: A thoroughly curated barcode release of 1300 Western Palearctic weevil species (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023
The Molecular Weevil Identification project (MWI) studies the systematics of Western Palearctic weevils (superfamily Curculionoidea) in an integrative taxonomic approach of DNA barcoding, morphology and ecology.
André Schütte, Peter Stüben, Jonas Astrin   +2 more
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The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity [PDF]

Nature, 2015
Antarctic biodiversity is much more extensive, ecologically diverse and biogeographically structured than previously thought. Understanding of how this diversity is distributed in marine and terrestrial systems, the mechanisms underlying its spatial variation, and the significance of the microbiota is growing rapidly.
Melodie A. McGeoch, Ceridwen I. Fraser, Steven L. Chown, Andrew Clarke, Katherine L. Moon, Katherine L. Moon, S. Craig Cary   +6 more
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The human dimension of biodiversity changes on islands

Science, 2021
Accelerating ecosystem disruption Oceanic islands are among the most recent areas on Earth to have been colonized by humans, in many cases in just the past few thousand years. Therefore, they are important laboratories for the study of human impacts on natural vegetation and biodiversity.
Josep Peñuelas, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Janet M. Wilmshurst, Sietze J. Norder, Lea de Nascimento, Lea de Nascimento, H. John B. Birks, H. John B. Birks, Vivian A. Felde, Alvaro Castilla-Beltrán, Cynthia A. Froyd, Svante Björck, Matthew Prebble, Matthew Prebble, Robert J. Whittaker, Robert J. Whittaker, Henry Hooghiemstra, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Erik J. de Boer, Simon Connor, José María Fernández-Palacios, Karl Ljung, Katherine J. Willis, Janelle Stevenson, Sandra Nogué, Simon Haberle, Ana M. C. Santos   +27 more
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MitoGeneExtractor: Efficient extraction of mitochondrial genes from next‐generation sequencing libraries

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences are often found as byproducts in next‐generation sequencing (NGS) datasets that were originally created to capture genomic or transcriptomic information of an organism.
Marie V. Brasseur, Jonas J. Astrin, Matthias F. Geiger, Christoph Mayer   +3 more
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Changes in Marine Biodiversity as an Indicator of Climate Change [PDF]

, 2009
Ambient temperature is very likely the most important environmental factor determining the distribution and diversity of life in the oceans. Hence, climate change is expected to alter marine biodiversity on a global scale. Here we review observed and predicted effects of climate change on the diversity of marine species.
Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze
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Biodiversity, climate change, and adaptation in the Mediterranean [PDF]

Ecosphere, 2022
AbstractPotential for, and limits to, adaptation to environmental changes are critical for resilience and risk mitigation. The Mediterranean basin is a mosaic of biodiversity‐rich ecosystems long affected by human influence, whose resilience is now questioned by climate change.
Aurelle, Didier, Thomas, Séverine, Albert, Cécile H., Bally, Marc, Bondeau, Alberte, Boudouresque, Charles-François, Cahill, Abigail E., Carlotti, François, Chenuil, Anne, Cramer, Wolfgang, Davi, Hendrik, Jode, Aurélien De, Ereskovsky, Alexander, Farnet da Silva, Anne Marie, Fernandez, Catherine, Gauquelin, Thierry, Mirleau, Pascal, Monnet, Anne-Christine, Prévosto, Bernard, Rossi, Vincent, Sartoretto, Stéphane, van Wambeke, France, Fady, Bruno   +22 more
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The ASV Registry: a place for ASVs to be [PDF]

Metabarcoding and Metagenomics
Despite the effectiveness of DNA metabarcoding for gaining insights into biodiversity and environmental species composition, a centralised management and storage option including easy accessibility of already-published data is lacking.
Christian Bräunig, Sandra Meid, Björn Quast, Vera Rduch, Peter Grobe   +4 more
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