References Flashcards
(44 cards)
Who argued that we are experiencing a planetary-scale state shift attributed to human activity?
Barnosky et al., 2012
Who compiled a list of 31 indicators to assess whether we had met the UN 2010 biodiversity target, which aimed for a ‘significant reduction in the rate of biodiversity loss at all scales by 2010’?
Butchart et al., 2010
Who used 55 indicators to assess our progress towards the Aichi targets in 2020?
Tittensor et al., 2014
Who found that PA coverage is increasing worldwide, sustainable management plans are taking root and public awareness of biodiversity is being raise?
Tittensor et al., 2014
Who estimated the cost of reducing extinction of the world’s threatened bird species at $0.875-1.23bn, of which only 12% is currently being funded?
McCarthy et al., 2012
Who came up with a unified framework for assessing biological invasion, combining the Richardson framework (for plants) and the Williamson framework (for animals)?
Blackburn et al., 2011
Who studied PCBs in European cetaceans, finding the blubber concentrations of PCBs in killer whales, bottlenose and spinner dolphins to be well above known toxicity thresholds?
Jepson et al., 2016
Who described morbilliviruses in marine mammals?
Barrett, Sahoo and Jepson, 2003
Who proposed the idea of exchangeability, both genetic and ecological, as the primary focus of conserving ESUs or ‘evolutionary significant units’?
Crandall et al., 2000
Who proposed that extinction is fundamentally a demographic process, as genetic effects like inbreeding depression and drift can be overcome?
Lande et al., 1988
Who said that using primary data such as occurrence records and RS data in ENM was better than using secondary composite sources like the IUCN RLIs or the LPI to estimate biodiversity loss?
Soberon and Peterson, 2009
Who said that, if deforestation continues at present rates, up to 79% of SEA vertebrates (>4000 species) will be consigned to extirpation by 2100?
Brook and Sodhi, 2006
Who said that biodiversity loss cannot be attributed to one driver but to a synergy of drivers that are amplified by feedbacks?
Brook, Sodhi and Bradshaw, 2008
Who described the two ways of looking at biodiversity with respect to ecosystem services, and proposed that we resolve conflict by recognising that biodiversity plays a role at multiple levels?
Mace et al., 2012
Who explained that biodiversity loss is likely to affect subsistence farmers, the rural poor and indigenous peoples the most, as they have the least say in national policy, cannot flee environmental degradation and do not have economic means to afford alternatives to what they lack?
Essentially that BIODIVERSITY IT INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO POVERTY
Diaz et al., 2006
Who found that, for mammals, those with large-bodies that wean at a late age, have large home ranges, live at low population densities and have small geographical ranges are MORE likely to go extinct?
Cardillo et al., 2008
Who found that intrinsic traits are more important in predicting extinction in large-bodied mammals?
Cardillo et al., 2008
Who looked at carnivores and ungulates from the 1970s to now, and found that 1/4 taxa studied had moved 1 or more categories closer to extinction?
Di Marco et al., 2014
Who found that, in carnivores and ungulates, taxa that had a mass of >100kg had deteriorated faster than those with a mass of
Di Marco et al., 2014
What are the 5 Aichi targets to achieve by 2020?
A: raise awareness of biodiversity loss by mainstreaming it into government and society
B: Reduce the pressure on biodiversity and promote sustainable use
C: Improve the status of biodiversity by safeguarding it
D: Enhance the benefits of biodiversity and ES to all (increase resilience)
E: include indigenous peoples and local communities in planning, attract sufficient funding
Who described the ‘lifting cloud base hypothesis’ for amphibian extinction?
Pounds et al., 1999
Who described the ‘climate-linked epidemic hypothesis’ for amphibian extinction?
Pounds et al., 2006
Who described the ‘standing leaf litter hypothesis’ for amphibian extinction?
Whitfield et al., 2007
Who described a genetic rescue programme for Florida panthers?
Mills, 2013
