COVID-19 fallout undermining nature conservation efforts - IUCN publication
IUCN, 11 mars 2021
“The pandemic has significantly impacted nature conservation around the globe, including job losses among protected area rangers, reduced anti-poaching patrols and environmental protection rollbacks, according to a collection of new research papers published today by IUCN in a special issue of PARKS, the journal of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas.”
https://www.iucn.org/news/world-com...
The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe
Joe Methorst, Katrin Rehdanz, Thomas Mueller, Ecological Economics vol. 181, mars 2021
“Nature affects human well-being in multiple ways. However, the association between species diversity and human well-being at larger spatial scales remains largely unexplored. Here, we examine the relationship between species diversity and human well-being at the continental scale, while controlling for other known drivers of well-being. We related socio-economic data from more than 26,000 European citizens across 26 countries with macroecological data on species diversity and nature characteristics for Europe. […]”
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Five things the world is saying about ecosystem restoration
UNEP, 10 mars 2021
« The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration – set to launch during World Environment Day on 5 June – aims to rally citizens, governments and corporations around one common goal : preventing, halting and reversing the destruction of natural spaces. […]”
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stori...
Land could be worth more left to nature than when farmed, study finds
Phoebe Weston, theguardian.com, 08 mars 2021
“Nature-rich sites such as woods and wetlands more valuable because of the ‘ecosystem services’ they provide”
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...
Past landscape structure drives the functional assemblages of plants and birds
Lucie Lecoq, Aude Ernoult & Cendrine Mony, Scientific reports 11, Article number : 3443, 2021, publié le 09 février 2021
« Landscape structure is a major driver of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. However, the response of biodiversity can be delayed after landscape changes. This study aimed to determine the effect of current and past landscape structure on plant and bird assemblages. We used a trait-based approach to understand their responses to landscape simplification and habitat fragmentation. We quantified landscape structure at three different years (1963, 1985, 2000) and sampled current plant and bird assemblages in twenty 1 km2 landscape windows located along the Seine Valley (France). […]”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...