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Global agricultural expansion and carnivore conservation biogeography
Ricardo Dobrovolski,Ricardo Dobrovolski,Rafael Loyola,François Guilhaumon,François Guilhaumon,Sidney F. Gouveia,Sidney F. Gouveia,José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho +7 more
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In this paper, the authors investigated the correlation between projections of agricultural expansion and the solutions of global spatial prioritizations for carnivore conservation through the implementation of different goals: (1) purely maximizing species representation and (2) representing species while avoiding sites under high pressure for agriculture expansion.About:
This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 47 citations till now.read more
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Global priorities for conservation across multiple dimensions of mammalian diversity.
Fernanda Thiesen Brum,Fernanda Thiesen Brum,Catherine H. Graham,Gabriel C. Costa,S. Blair Hedges,Caterina Penone,Volker C. Radeloff,Carlo Rondinini,Rafaela Loyola,Ana D. Davidson,Ana D. Davidson,Ana D. Davidson +11 more
TL;DR: This work provides the first biological map of priority areas that captures all three dimensions of mammalian biodiversity: taxonomic, phylogenetic, and traits, and finds limited overlap in priority regions across the three dimensions and with currently protected areas.
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The contribution of predators and scavengers to human well-being
Christopher J. O'Bryan,Alexander Braczkowski,Hawthorne L. Beyer,Neil H. Carter,James E. M. Watson,James E. M. Watson,Eve McDonald-Madden +6 more
TL;DR: It is argued that researchers must work in concert with the media, managers and policymakers to highlight benefits of these species and the need to ensure their long-term conservation, as many predators and scavengers are in a state of rapid decline.
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Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation
Alejandro Estrada,Paul A. Garber,Russell A. Mittermeier,Serge A. Wich,Sidney F. Gouveia,Ricardo Dobrovolski,K. A. I. Nekaris,Vincent Nijman,Anthony B. Rylands,Fiona Maisels,Fiona Maisels,Elizabeth A. Williamson,Júlio César Bicca-Marques,Agustín Fuentes,Leandro Jerusalinsky,Steig E. Johnson,Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo,Leonardo C. Oliveira,Christoph Schwitzer,Christian Roos,Susan M. Cheyne,Maria Cecília Martins Kierulff,Brigitte M. Raharivololona,Mauricio Talebi,Jonah Ratsimbazafy,Jatna Supriatna,Ramesh Boonratana,Made Wedana,Arif Setiawan +28 more
TL;DR: The anthropogenic pressures each country is facing that place their primate populations at risk are examined and the key challenges faced by the four countries to avert primate extinctions now and in the future are listed.
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Conserving the functional and phylogenetic trees of life of European tetrapods
Wilfried Thuiller,Wilfried Thuiller,Luigi Maiorano,Florent Mazel,François Guilhaumon,Gentile Francesco Ficetola,Sébastien Lavergne,Julien Renaud,Cristina Roquet,David Mouillot +9 more
TL;DR: It is found that the current European protection system is adequately representative in terms of the evolutionary history of amphibians while it fails for the rest, however, the most functionally distinct species were better represented than they would be under random conservation efforts.
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Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
Norman Myers,Russell A. Mittermeier,Cristina G. Mittermeier,Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca,Jennifer Kent +4 more
TL;DR: A ‘silver bullet’ strategy on the part of conservation planners, focusing on ‘biodiversity hotspots’ where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing exceptional loss of habitat, is proposed.
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TL;DR: This study identified a ranking of the importance of drivers of change, aranking of the biomes with respect to expected changes, and the major sources of uncertainties in projections of future biodiversity change.
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Solutions for a cultivated planet
Jonathan A. Foley,Navin Ramankutty,Kate A. Brauman,E. S. Cassidy,James S. Gerber,M. Johnston,Nathaniel D. Mueller,Christine S. O’Connell,Deepak K. Ray,Paul C. West,Christian Balzer,Elena M. Bennett,Stephen R. Carpenter,Jason Hill,Chad Monfreda,Stephen Polasky,Johan Rockström,John Sheehan,Stefan Siebert,David Tilman,David P. M. Zaks +20 more
TL;DR: It is shown that tremendous progress could be made by halting agricultural expansion, closing ‘yield gaps’ on underperforming lands, increasing cropping efficiency, shifting diets and reducing waste, which could double food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.