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Widespread introduced species dominate the urban tree assemblage on the endemic...
Strauß, Lena; F. De Lima, Ricardo; Baker, Timothy R.; Benitez Bosco, Laura; Dauby, Gilles; Lachenaud, Olivier; Lima, Angela; Madre Deus, DilsonThe Afrotropics are experiencing some of the fastest urbanisation rates on the planet but the impact of city growth on their rich and unique biodiversity remains understudied, especially compared to natural baselines. Little is also known about how introduced species influence β-diversity in these contexts, and how patterns coincide with native ranges of species. Here we investigated how tree assemblages of the...
Limited integration of biodiversity within climate policy: Evidence from the Al...
Strauß, Lena; Baker, Timothy R.; F. De Lima, Ricardo; Afionis, Stavros; Dallimer, MartinClimate change and biodiversity loss are deeply intertwined anthropogenic global crises, for which forests provide powerful nature-based solutions. Biodiverse forests are more resilient to climate change than monocultures, thereby enhancing long-term carbon storage and ecosystem-based adaptation. Awareness of these interdependencies is slowly growing, but we know little about how countries are considering biodi...
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In C...
Hudson, Lawrence N; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L L; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R P; Alhusseini, Tamera IThe PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies 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. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical mod...