Cracking the Code of Biodiversity Responses to Past Climate Change In Trends Ecology and Evolution by Nogués-Bravo, D., Fordham, D. A., et al. (2018)
Deep-water ocean circulation may have awakened marine biodiversity In a new study, a research team headed from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, has shown a direct link between the greatest increase in Phanerozoic marine biodiversity and the onset of a…
Biodiversity belowground is just as important as aboveground Most of the world’s biodiversity is below ground, but little is known about how it affects ecosystems or how it will be affected by climate change. A new paper by CMEC demonstrates the importance of soil biodiversity fo…
World’s governments are failing on protected areas for nature A new study has found that while governments are making progress in expanding Protected Area networks, these are failing to provide adequate coverage for nature.
More investment needed to reach international biodiversity targets by 2020 Despite some progress, more needs to be done to reach the internationally agreed set of biodiversity targets by 2020. New Science study out today.
The biodiversity crisis: Worse than climate change University of Copenhagen leaves imprint on new UN panel in effort to preserve world nature.