Victoria J. Burton

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.

TL;DR: The PREDICTS project as discussed by the authors provides a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on three groups of soil taxa (earthworms, mycorrhizal fungi and soil bacteria) that represent a range of body sizes and ecologies, and, therefore, interact with their environment at different spatial scales.

TL;DR: A dataset of 3,250,404 measurements, collated from 26,114 sampling locations in 94 countries and representing 47,044 species, which was assembled as part of the PREDICTS project - Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems.

TL;DR: GROW Observatory as discussed by the authors is a project funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, which aims to establish a large scale (more than 20,000 participants), resilient and integrated "Citizen Observatory" and community for environmental monitoring that is self-sustaining beyond the life of the project.