Projecting Global Biodiversity Indicators under Future Development Scenarios

• Published in: Conservation letters Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 5 - 13
• Main Authors: Visconti, Piero, Bakkenes, Michel, Baisero, Daniele, Brooks, Thomas, Butchart, Stuart H. M, Joppa, Lucas, Alkemade, Rob, Di Marco, Moreno, Santini, Luca, Hoffmann, Michael, Maiorano, Luigi, Pressey, Robert L, Arponen, Anni, Boitani, Luigi, Reside, April E, Vuuren, Detlef P, Rondinini, Carlo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Blackwell Pub 01.01.2016; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Abundance; Agricultural production; at-risk population; Biodiversity; Biodiversity indicators; Biodiversity scenarios; Carnivores; climate; Climate change; Confidence intervals; Conservation status; Consumption; Convention on Biological Diversity; Ecosystems; Emission standards; Emissions; Energy; extinction; Extinction risk; Food; Geometric Mean Abundance; issues and policy; Land use; Land-use change; Plantations; Population decline; population growth; Red List Index; risk; Species extinction; Sustainable development; Threatened species; Trends; Ungulates

To address the ongoing global biodiversity crisis, governments have set strategic objectives and have adopted indicators to monitor progress toward their achievement. Projecting the likely impacts on biodiversity of different policy decisions allows decision makers to understand if and how these tar...