Simon Blyth

TL;DR: In this paper, a new global distribution map of tropical dry forests derived from the recently developed MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields (VCF) product was presented, which depicts percentage tree cover at a resolution of 500 m, combined with previously defined maps of biomes.

TL;DR: It is found that the annual costs of effective field-based conservation vary enormously, across seven orders of magnitude, from <$0.1 to >$1,000,000 per km2, and substantial increased investment in tropical conservation is urgently required if opportunities for cost-effective action are not to be missed.

TL;DR: This dataset collates 350,985 individual occurrences of saltmarshes and presents the first global estimate of their known extent, and believes that, while incomplete, the global polygon data cover many of the important areas in Europe, the USA and Australia.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the potential threat to > 37,000 species and > 200,000 protected areas globally from the locations of present and future fossil fuel extraction in marine and terrestrial environments and identify 181 locations where oil or gas extraction suitability coincides with biodiversity importance, making conflicts between extraction and conservation probable.