Tara Zamin

TL;DR: The results provide the first analysis of the global conservation status and distribution patterns of reptiles and the threats affecting them, highlighting conservation priorities and knowledge gaps which need to be addressed urgently to ensure the continued survival of the world’s reptiles.

TL;DR: Biome-wide relationships between temperature, moisture and seven key plant functional traits across the tundra and over time show that community height increased with warming across all sites, whereas other traits lagged behind predicted rates of change.

TL;DR: This work examines the coverage of biodiversity data using four global biodiversity datasets, and looks at how effective current efforts are at addressing this discrepancy, and what countries might be able to do in time for 2010 and beyond.

TL;DR: A set of four criteria, based on the hypothesis that ecosystem risk is a function of the risk of its component species, are proposed and are the first steps in an international consultation process that will lead to a unified proposal to be presented at the next World Conservation Congress in 2012.

TL;DR: A thorough global review of NRLs in 109 countries and analyzed gaps in NRL coverage in terms of geography and taxonomy to determine priority regions and taxonomic groups for further investment supports the assertion that regions with the greatest and most vulnerable biodiversity receive the least conservation attention.