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Land Use Intensity-Specific Global Characterization Factors to Assess Product Biodiversity Footprints by Chaudhary, Abhishek, Brooks, Thomas M

“…The UNEP-SETAC life cycle initiative recently recommended use of the countryside species–area relationship (SAR) model to calculate the characterization…”
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National Consumption and Global Trade Impacts on Biodiversity by Chaudhary, Abhishek, Brooks, Thomas M.

“…•A novel approach to parametrize countryside species-area relationship for projecting extinctions in any region and scale.•The parametrized model was used to…”
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Protected area targets post-2020 by Visconti, Piero, Butchart, Stuart H M, Brooks, Thomas M, Langhammer, Penny F, Marnewick, Daniel, Vergara, Sheila, Yanosky, Alberto, Watson, James E M

“…Outcome-based targets are needed to achieve biodiversity goals In 2010, Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted the Strategic Plan for…”
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Measuring Terrestrial Area of Habitat (AOH) and Its Utility for the IUCN Red List by Brooks, Thomas M., Pimm, Stuart L., Akçakaya, H. Resit, Buchanan, Graeme M., Butchart, Stuart H.M., Foden, Wendy, Hilton-Taylor, Craig, Hoffmann, Michael, Jenkins, Clinton N., Joppa, Lucas, Li, Binbin V., Menon, Vivek, Ocampo-Peñuela, Natalia, Rondinini, Carlo

“…The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species includes assessment of extinction risk for 98 512 species, plus…”
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Mapping nature's contribution to SDG 6 and implications for other SDGs at policy relevant scales by Mulligan, Mark, van Soesbergen, Arnout, Hole, David G., Brooks, Thomas M., Burke, Sophia, Hutton, Jon

“…The natural world has multiple, sometimes conflicting, sometimes synergistic, values to society when viewed through the lens of the Sustainable Development…”
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Scientific foundations for an IUCN Red List of ecosystems by Keith, David A, Rodríguez, Jon Paul, Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M, Nicholson, Emily, Aapala, Kaisu, Alonso, Alfonso, Asmussen, Marianne, Bachman, Steven, Basset, Alberto, Barrow, Edmund G, Benson, John S, Bishop, Melanie J, Bonifacio, Ronald, Brooks, Thomas M, Burgman, Mark A, Comer, Patrick, Comín, Francisco A, Essl, Franz, Faber-Langendoen, Don, Fairweather, Peter G, Holdaway, Robert J, Jennings, Michael, Kingsford, Richard T, Lester, Rebecca E, Mac Nally, Ralph, McCarthy, Michael A, Moat, Justin, Oliveira-Miranda, María A, Pisanu, Phil, Poulin, Brigitte, Regan, Tracey J, Riecken, Uwe, Spalding, Mark D, Zambrano-Martínez, Sergio

“…An understanding of risks to biodiversity is needed for planning action to slow current rates of decline and secure ecosystem services for future human use…”
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Protected Areas and Effective Biodiversity Conservation by Le Saout, Soizic, Hoffmann, Michael, Shi, Yichuan, Hughes, Adrian, Bernard, Cyril, Brooks, Thomas M., Bertzky, Bastian, Butchart, Stuart H. M., Stuart, Simon N., Badman, Tim, Rodrigues, Ana S. L

“…Increasing the collective contribution of protected areas toward preventing species extinctions requires the strategic allocation of management efforts…”
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Future habitat loss and extinctions driven by land-use change in biodiversity hotspots under four scenarios of climate-change mitigation by Jantz, Samuel M., Barker, Brian, Brooks, Thomas M., Chini, Louise P., Huang, Qiongyu, Moore, Rachel M., Noel, Jacob, Hurtt, George C.

“…Numerous species have been pushed into extinction as an increasing portion of Earth's land surface has been appropriated for human enterprise. In the future,…”
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Bolder science needed now for protected areas by Watson, James E. M., Darling, Emily S., Venter, Oscar, Maron, Martine, Walston, Joe, Possingham, Hugh P., Dudley, Nigel, Hockings, Marc, Barnes, Megan, Brooks, Thomas M.

“…Recognizing that protected areas (PAs) are essential for effective biodiversity conservation action, the Convention on Biological Diversity established…”
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A global analysis of management capacity and ecological outcomes in terrestrial protected areas by Geldmann, Jonas, Coad, Lauren, Barnes, Megan D., Craigie, Ian D., Woodley, Stephen, Balmford, Andrew, Brooks, Thomas M., Hockings, Marc, Knights, Kathryn, Mascia, Michael B., McRae, Louise, Burgess, Neil D.

“…Protecting important sites is a key strategy for halting the loss of biodiversity. However, our understanding of the relationship between management inputs and…”
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How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented? by Bolam, Friederike C., Mair, Louise, Angelico, Marco, Brooks, Thomas M., Burgman, Mark, Hermes, Claudia, Hoffmann, Michael, Martin, Rob W., McGowan, Philip J.K., Rodrigues, Ana S.L., Rondinini, Carlo, Westrip, James R.S., Wheatley, Hannah, Bedolla‐Guzmán, Yuliana, Calzada, Javier, Child, Matthew F., Cranswick, Peter A., Dickman, Christopher R., Fessl, Birgit, Fisher, Diana O., Garnett, Stephen T., Groombridge, Jim J., Johnson, Christopher N., Kennerley, Rosalind J., King, Sarah R.B., Lamoreux, John F., Lees, Alexander C., Lens, Luc, Mahood, Simon P., Mallon, David P., Meijaard, Erik, Méndez‐Sánchez, Federico, Percequillo, Alexandre Reis, Regan, Tracey J., Renjifo, Luis Miguel, Rivers, Malin C., Roach, Nicolette S., Roxburgh, Lizanne, Safford, Roger J., Salaman, Paul, Squires, Tom, Vázquez‐Domínguez, Ella, Visconti, Piero, Woinarski, John C.Z., Young, Richard P., Butchart, Stuart H.M.

“…Aichi Target 12 of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) contains the aim to ‘prevent extinctions of known threatened species’. To measure the degree to…”
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Imputation of missing data in life‐history trait datasets: which approach performs the best? by Penone, Caterina, Davidson, Ana D., Shoemaker, Kevin T., Di Marco, Moreno, Rondinini, Carlo, Brooks, Thomas M., Young, Bruce E., Graham, Catherine H., Costa, Gabriel C., Freckleton, Robert

“…Summary Despite efforts in data collection, missing values are commonplace in life‐history trait databases. Because these values typically are not missing…”
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Protecting important sites for biodiversity contributes to meeting global conservation targets by Butchart, Stuart H M, Scharlemann, Jörn P W, Evans, Mike I, Quader, Suhel, Aricò, Salvatore, Arinaitwe, Julius, Balman, Mark, Bennun, Leon A, Bertzky, Bastian, Besançon, Charles, Boucher, Timothy M, Brooks, Thomas M, Burfield, Ian J, Burgess, Neil D, Chan, Simba, Clay, Rob P, Crosby, Mike J, Davidson, Nicholas C, De Silva, Naamal, Devenish, Christian, Dutson, Guy C L, Fernández, David F Día Z, Fishpool, Lincoln D C, Fitzgerald, Claire, Foster, Matt, Heath, Melanie F, Hockings, Marc, Hoffmann, Michael, Knox, David, Larsen, Frank W, Lamoreux, John F, Loucks, Colby, May, Ian, Millett, James, Molloy, Dominic, Morling, Paul, Parr, Mike, Ricketts, Taylor H, Seddon, Nathalie, Skolnik, Benjamin, Stuart, Simon N, Upgren, Amy, Woodley, Stephen

“…Protected areas (PAs) are a cornerstone of conservation efforts and now cover nearly 13% of the world's land surface, with the world's governments committed to…”
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Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts by Rodrigues, Ana S L, Monsarrat, Sophie, Charpentier, Anne, Brooks, Thomas M, Hoffmann, Michael, Reeves, Randall, Palomares, Maria L D, Turvey, Samuel T

“…Ecological baselines-reference states of species' distributions and abundances-are key to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and…”
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Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty by Turner, Will R, Brandon, Katrina, Brooks, Thomas M, Gascon, Claude, Gibbs, Holly K, Lawrence, Keith S, Mittermeier, Russell A, Selig, Elizabeth R

“…Poverty and biodiversity loss are two of the world's dire challenges. Claims of conservation's contribution to poverty alleviation, however, remain…”
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The Importance and Benefits of Species by Gascon, Claude, Brooks, Thomas M., Contreras-MacBeath, Topiltzin, Heard, Nicolas, Konstant, William, Lamoreux, John, Launay, Frederic, Maunder, Michael, Mittermeier, Russell A., Molur, Sanjay, Al Mubarak, Razan Khalifa, Parr, Michael J., Rhodin, Anders G.J., Rylands, Anthony B., Soorae, Pritpal, Sanderson, James G., Vié, Jean-Christophe

“…Humans depend on biodiversity in myriad ways, yet species are being rapidly lost due to human activities. The ecosystem services approach to conservation tries…”
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Geography of current and future global mammal extinction risk by Davidson, Ana D, Shoemaker, Kevin T, Weinstein, Ben, Costa, Gabriel C, Brooks, Thomas M, Ceballos, Gerardo, Radeloff, Volker C, Rondinini, Carlo, Graham, Catherine H

“…Identifying which species are at greatest risk, what makes them vulnerable, and where they are distributed are central goals for conservation science. While…”
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Quantifying and categorising national extinction-risk footprints by Irwin, Amanda, Geschke, Arne, Brooks, Thomas M., Siikamaki, Juha, Mair, Louise, Strassburg, Bernardo B. N.

“…Biodiversity, essential to delivering the ecosystem services that support humanity, is under threat. Projections show that loss of biodiversity, specifically…”
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Harnessing online digital data in biodiversity monitoring by Soriano-Redondo, Andrea, Correia, Ricardo A, Barve, Vijay, Brooks, Thomas M, Butchart, Stuart H M, Jarić, Ivan, Kulkarni, Ritwik, Ladle, Richard J, Vaz, Ana Sofia, Di Minin, Enrico

“…Online digital data from media platforms have the potential to complement biodiversity monitoring efforts. We propose a strategy for integrating these data…”
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Spatially explicit trends in the global conservation status of vertebrates by Rodrigues, Ana S L, Brooks, Thomas M, Butchart, Stuart H M, Chanson, Janice, Cox, Neil, Hoffmann, Michael, Stuart, Simon N

“…The world's governments have committed to preventing the extinction of threatened species and improving their conservation status by 2020. However,…”
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