Shaun T. Brooks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the current state and recent trajectories of 19 ecosystems, spanning 58° of latitude across 7.7 M km2, from Australia's coral reefs to terrestrial Antarctica.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the area of building and ground disturbance across the entire continent using geographic information system mapping of satellite imagery and found that human impacts are disproportionately concentrated in some of the most sensitive environments, with consequential implications for conservation management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and define a suite of footprint types (disturbance, building, contamination, nonnative species, noise, visual, visitation, risk, carbon, ecological, and human), with the aim of developing a common understanding of what the term refers to.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the key to continual improvement in an ongoing environmental management system is to learn from incidences and take action to prevent them occurring again, with an end-goal of minimising the residual risk as much as possible.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of 31 studies within the Maritime Antarctic, Continental Antarctic and McMurdo Dry Valleys regions, found that 83% confirmed impacts in areas of visible disturbance.