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Sara Contu
Researcher at American Museum of Natural History
Publications - 21
Citations - 4897
Sara Contu is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Land use. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 16 publications receiving 3519 citations. Previous affiliations of Sara Contu include Natural History Museum & Imperial College London.
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Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity
Tim Newbold,Lawrence N. Hudson,Samantha L. L. Hill,Sara Contu,Igor Lysenko,Rebecca A. Senior,Luca Börger,Dominic J. Bennett,Argyrios Choimes,Ben Collen,Julie Day,Adriana De Palma,Sandra Díaz,Susy Echeverría-Londoño,Melanie J. Edgar,Anat Feldman,Morgan Garon,Michelle L K Harrison,Tamera I Alhusseini,Daniel J. Ingram,Yuval Itescu,Jens Kattge,Victoria Kemp,Lucinda Kirkpatrick,Michael Kleyer,David L P Correia,Callum D. Martin,Shai Meiri,Maria Novosolov,Yuan Pan,Helen Phillips,Drew W. Purves,Alexandra N Robinson,Jake Simpson,Sean L. Tuck,Evan Weiher,Hannah J. White,Robert M. Ewers,Georgina M. Mace,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Andy Purvis +40 more
TL;DR: A terrestrial assemblage database of unprecedented geographic and taxonomic coverage is analysed to quantify local biodiversity responses to land use and related changes and shows that in the worst-affected habitats, pressures reduce within-sample species richness by an average of 76.5%, total abundance by 39.5% and rarefaction-based richness by 40.3%.
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Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment
Tim Newbold,Tim Newbold,Lawrence N. Hudson,Andrew P. Arnell,Sara Contu,Adriana De Palma,Adriana De Palma,Simon Ferrier,Samantha L. L. Hill,Samantha L. L. Hill,Andrew J. Hoskins,Igor Lysenko,Helen Phillips,Helen Phillips,Victoria J. Burton,Charlotte W T Chng,Susan R Emerson,Di Gao,Gwilym D Pask-Hale,Jon Hutton,Jon Hutton,Martin Jung,Martin Jung,Katia Sanchez-Ortiz,Benno I. Simmons,Benno I. Simmons,Sarah Whitmee,Hanbin Zhang,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Andy Purvis,Andy Purvis +31 more
TL;DR: It is estimated that land use and related pressures have already reduced local biodiversity intactness—the average proportion of natural biodiversity remaining in local ecosystems—beyond its recently proposed planetary boundary across 58.1% of the world’s land surface, where 71.4%) of the human population live.
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Local biodiversity is higher inside than outside terrestrial protected areas worldwide
Claudia L. Gray,Samantha L. L. Hill,Tim Newbold,Lawrence N. Hudson,Luca Börger,Sara Contu,Andrew J. Hoskins,Simon Ferrier,Andy Purvis,Andy Purvis,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann +11 more
TL;DR: Using a new global biodiversity database with unprecedented geographic and taxonomic coverage, four biodiversity measures are compared at sites sampled in multiple land uses inside and outside protected areas to reinforce the global importance of protected areas but suggest that protection does not consistently benefit species with small ranges or increase the variety of ecological niches.
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Green Plants in the Red: A Baseline Global Assessment for the IUCN Sampled Red List Index for Plants
Neil Brummitt,Steven P. Bachman,Janine Griffiths-Lee,Maiko L. Lutz,Justin Moat,Aljos Farjon,John S. Donaldson,Craig Hilton-Taylor,Thomas R. Meagher,Sara Albuquerque,Elina Aletrari,A. Kei Andrews,Guy Atchison,Elisabeth Baloch,Barbara Barlozzini,Alice Brunazzi,Julia Carretero,Marco Celesti,Helen Chadburn,Eduardo Cianfoni,Chris Cockel,Vanessa Coldwell,Benedetta Concetti,Sara Contu,Vicki Crook,Philippa Dyson,Lauren M. Gardiner,Nadia Ghanim,Hannah Greene,Alice Groom,Ruth Harker,Della Hopkins,Sonia Khela,Poppy Lakeman-Fraser,Heather Lindon,Helen Lockwood,Christine Loftus,Debora Lombrici,Lucia Lopez-Poveda,James Lyon,Patricia Malcolm-Tompkins,Kirsty F. McGregor,Laura Moreno,Linda Murray,Keara Nazar,Emily Power,Mireya Quiton Tuijtelaars,Ruth Salter,Robert Segrott,Hannah Thacker,Leighton J. Thomas,Sarah Tingvoll,Gemma Watkinson,Katerina Wojtaszekova,Eimear Nic Lughadha +54 more
TL;DR: This study provides a baseline assessment from which trends in the status of plant biodiversity can be measured and periodically reassessed and gives, for the first time, an accurate view of how threatened plants are across the world.
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A global model of the response of tropical and sub-tropical forest biodiversity to anthropogenic pressures
Tim Newbold,Tim Newbold,Lawrence N. Hudson,Lawrence N. Hudson,Helen Phillips,Helen Phillips,Samantha L. L. Hill,Samantha L. L. Hill,Samantha L. L. Hill,Sara Contu,Sara Contu,Igor Lysenko,Abigayil Blandon,Stuart H. M. Butchart,Hollie Booth,Julie Day,Adriana De Palma,Adriana De Palma,Michelle L K Harrison,Lucinda Kirkpatrick,Edwin L. Pynegar,Alexandra N Robinson,Jake Simpson,Georgina M. Mace,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Jörn P. W. Scharlemann,Andy Purvis,Andy Purvis +27 more
TL;DR: This is the first worldwide synthetic analysis of how individual species in four major taxonomic groups—invertebrates, ‘herptiles’ (reptiles and amphibians), mammals and birds—respond to multiple human pressures in tropical and sub-tropical forests.