Retaining natural vegetation to safeguard biodiversity and humanity

Autor: Jeremy S. Simmonds, Andres Felipe Suarez‐Castro, April E. Reside, James E. M. Watson, James R. Allan, Scott C. Atkinson, Pasquale Borrelli, Nigel Dudley, Stephen Edwards, Richard A. Fuller, Edward T. Game, Simon Linke, Sean L. Maxwell, Panos Panagos, Philippe Puydarrieux, Fabien Quétier, Rebecca K. Runting, Talitha Santini, Laura J. Sonter, Martine Maron
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Conservation Biology. 37
ISSN: 1523-1739
0888-8892
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14040
Popis: Humanity is on a pathway of unsustainable loss of the natural systems upon which we, and all life, rely. To date, global efforts to deliver internationally-agreed goals to reduce carbon emissions, halt biodiversity loss, and retain essential ecosystem services, have been poorly integrated. All these goals rely in part on preserving natural (e.g. native, largely unmodified) and semi-natural (e.g. under some form of low intensity/sustainable human use) forests, woodlands and grasslands. Here, we show how to unify these goals by empirically deriving spatially explicit, quantitative area-based targets for the retention of natural and semi-natural (e.g. native) terrestrial vegetation. We found that at least 67 million km
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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