Ester Polaina

TL;DR: Considering rising agricultural demand, areas where timely land-use planning may proactively mitigate biodiversity loss are highlighted, to highlight areas at risk of high biodiversity loss across the entire option space of possible agricultural change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of past land-use modifications in the current distribution and conservation status of mammals worldwide using spatial data characterizing human land use from c.6000 to c.2000 was evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored how diverse indicators of social and economic development correlate with the conservation status of terrestrial mammals within countries explicitly exploring hypothesized linear and quadratic relationships and found that those with a more threatened mammalian biota have mainly rural populations, are predominantly exporters of goods and services, receive low to intermediate economic benefits from international tourism, and have medium to high human life expectancy.

TL;DR: This study aims to identify environmentally suitable areas for 15 of the most harmful invasive alien terrestrial vertebrates in Europe in a transparent and replicable way using species distribution models and publicly-available data from GBIF to predict environmental suitability and to identify hotspots of IATV accounting for knowledge gaps in their distributions.

TL;DR: This approach can spatially synthesize known predictors of vulnerability identifying areas where different factors predispose species to become extinct, and builds on conservation planning approaches by targeting actions based on known strengths and weaknesses of a given area.