Bruno A. Walther

TL;DR: Approaches to identifying more of the earth’s biological diversity; understanding how biological, geophysical, and geochemical processes interact; and presenting scientific knowledge in time to contribute to and achieve the 2010 target are described.

TL;DR: Biodiversity change is increasingly important in sustaining ecosystems and ultimately human well-being and this research aims to help us better understand and respond to this change.

TL;DR: Simulation results show that the proposed lower bounds always reduce bias over the traditional lower bounds and improve accuracy (as measured by mean squared error) when the heterogeneity of species abundances is relatively high.

TL;DR: The results suggest that benzodiazepine use is significantly associated with dementia risk, however, observational studies cannot clarify whether the observed epidemiologic association is a causal effect or the result of some unmeasured confounding variable.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a shift away from a large set of static targets towards a smaller number of specific targets, which relate respectively to those biodiversity outcomes that must be avoided to avert situations that are deleterious for people, the highly valued biodiversity conservation priorities, and an improved scientific understanding necessary for adaptive management now and into the future.