Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

Isbell, Forest; Gonzalez, Andrew; Loreau, Michel; Cowles, Jane; Díaz, Sandra; Hector, Andy; Mace, Georgina M; Wardle, David A.; O'Connor, Mary I.; Duffy, J Emmett; Turnbull, Lindsay A; Thompson, Patrick L; Larigauderie, Anne

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Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

Author(s): Forest Isbell , Andrew Gonzalez , Michel Loreau , Jane Cowles , Sandra Díaz , Andy Hector , Georgina M. Mace , David A. Wardle , Mary I. O'Connor , J. Emmett Duffy , Lindsay A. Turnbull , Patrick L. Thompson , Anne Larigauderie

Publication date Created: May 31 2017

Publication date (Print): May 31 2017

Journal: Nature

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history. Human dependence and

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Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity.

Bradley Cardinale, J Duffy, Andrew Gonzalez … (2012)

The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit the Earth. So, too, do 7 billion people. Two decades ago, at the first Earth Summit, the vast majority of the world's nations declared that human actions were dismantling the Earth's ecosystems, eliminating genes, species and biological traits at an alarming rate. This observation led to the question of how such loss of biological diversity will alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the goods and services needed to prosper.