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Michael Curran

Researcher at ETH Zurich

Publications -  34
Citations -  1774

Michael Curran is an academic researcher from ETH Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Restoration ecology. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 29 publications receiving 1411 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Curran include University of Basel & Research Institute of Organic Agriculture.

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Is there any empirical support for biodiversity offset policy

TL;DR: Results indicate that in the best case, species richness converges to OG reference values within a century, species similarity (Sorenson) takes about twice as long, and assemblage composition (Morisita-Horn) up to an order of magnitude longer.
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Toward meaningful end points of biodiversity in life cycle assessment.

TL;DR: There are serious conceptual shortcomings in the way models are constructed, with scale considerations largely absent, and there is a disproportionate focus on indicators that reflect changes in compositional aspects of biodiversity, mainly changes in species richness.
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sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

Helge Bruelheide, +184 more
TL;DR: The sPlot database as mentioned in this paper contains 1,121,244 vegetation plots, which comprise 23,586,216 records of plant species and their relative cover or abundance in plots collected worldwide between 1885 and 2015.
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Land Use in Life Cycle Assessment: Global Characterization Factors Based on Regional and Global Potential Species Extinction

TL;DR: The impacts of land use on biodiversity varied strongly across ecoregions, showing the highest values in regions where most natural habitat had been converted in the past, and how it can be applied to prospective assessments using scenarios of future land use.