Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

Forest Isbell; Patricia Balvanera; Akira S. Mori; Jin Sheng He; James M. Bullock; Ganga Ram Regmi; Eric W. Seabloom; Simon Ferrier; Osvaldo E. Sala; Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez; Julia Tavella; Daniel J. Larkin; Bernhard Schmid; Charlotte L. Outhwaite; Pairot Pramual; Elizabeth T. Borer; Michel Loreau; Taiwo Crossby Omotoriogun; David O. Obura; Maggie Anderson; Cristina Portales-Reyes; Kevin Kirkman; Pablo M. Vergara; Adam Thomas Clark; Kimberly J. Komatsu; Owen L. Petchey; Sarah R. Weiskopf; Laura J. Williams; Scott L. Collins; Nico Eisenhauer; Christopher H. Trisos; Delphine Renard; Alexandra J. Wright; Poonam Tripathi; Jane Cowles; Jarrett E.K. Byrnes; Peter B. Reich; Andy Purvis; Zati Sharip; Mary I. O’Connor; Clare E. Kazanski; Nick M. Haddad; Eulogio H. Soto; Laura E. Dee; Sandra Díaz; Chad R. Zirbel; Meghan L. Avolio; Shaopeng Wang; Zhiyuan Ma; Jingjing Liang; Hanan C. Farah; Justin Andrew Johnson; Brian W. Miller; Yann Hautier; Melinda D. Smith; Johannes M.H. Knops; Bonnie J.E. Myers; Zuzana V. Harmáčková; Jorge Cortés; Michael B.J. Harfoot; Andrew Gonzalez; Tim Newbold; Jacqueline Oehri; Marina Mazón; Cynnamon Dobbs; Meredith S. Palmer

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Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

Forest Isbell, Patricia Balvanera, Akira S. Mori, Jin Sheng He, James M. Bullock, Ganga Ram Regmi, Eric W. Seabloom, Simon Ferrier, Osvaldo E. Sala, Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez, Julia Tavella, Daniel J. Larkin, Bernhard Schmid, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Pairot Pramual, Elizabeth T. Borer, Michel Loreau, Taiwo Crossby Omotoriogun, David O. Obura, Maggie AndersonCristina Portales-Reyes, Kevin Kirkman, Pablo M. Vergara, Adam Thomas Clark, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Owen L. Petchey, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Laura J. Williams, Scott L. Collins, Nico Eisenhauer, Christopher H. Trisos, Delphine Renard, Alexandra J. Wright, Poonam Tripathi, Jane Cowles, Jarrett E.K. Byrnes, Peter B. Reich, Andy Purvis, Zati Sharip, Mary I. O’Connor, Clare E. Kazanski, Nick M. Haddad, Eulogio H. Soto, Laura E. Dee, Sandra Díaz, Chad R. Zirbel, Meghan L. Avolio, Shaopeng Wang, Zhiyuan Ma, Jingjing Liang, Hanan C. Farah, Justin Andrew Johnson, Brian W. Miller, Yann Hautier, Melinda D. Smith, Johannes M.H. Knops, Bonnie J.E. Myers, Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Jorge Cortés, Michael B.J. Harfoot, Andrew Gonzalez, Tim Newbold, Jacqueline Oehri, Marina Mazón, Cynnamon Dobbs, Meredith S. Palmer

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Despite substantial progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, major taxonomic and geographic knowledge gaps remain. Decision makers often rely on expert judgement to fill knowledge gaps, but are rarely able to engage with sufficiently large and diverse groups of specialists. To improve understanding of the perspectives of thousands of biodiversity experts worldwide, we conducted a survey and asked experts to focus on the taxa and freshwater, terrestrial, or marine ecosystem with which they are most familiar. We found several points of overwhelming consensus (for instance, multiple drivers of biodiversity loss interact synergistically) and important demographic and geographic differences in specialists’ perspectives and estimates. Experts from groups that are underrepresented in biodiversity science, including women and those from the Global South, recommended different priorities for conservation solutions, with less emphasis on acquiring new protected areas, and provided higher estimates of biodiversity loss and its impacts. This may in part be because they disproportionately study the most highly threatened taxa and habitats. Front Ecol Environ 2022;.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	94-103
Number of pages	10
Journal	Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Volume	21
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2536
State	Published - Mar 2023

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Isbell, F., Balvanera, P., Mori, A. S., He, J. S., Bullock, J. M., Regmi, G. R., Seabloom, E. W., Ferrier, S., Sala, O. E., Guerrero-Ramírez, N. R., Tavella, J., Larkin, D. J., Schmid, B., Outhwaite, C. L., Pramual, P., Borer, E. T., Loreau, M., Omotoriogun, T. C., Obura, D. O., ... Palmer, M. S. (2023). Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 21(2), 94-103. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2536

Isbell, F, Balvanera, P, Mori, AS, He, JS, Bullock, JM, Regmi, GR, Seabloom, EW, Ferrier, S, Sala, OE, Guerrero-Ramírez, NR, Tavella, J, Larkin, DJ, Schmid, B, Outhwaite, CL, Pramual, P, Borer, ET, Loreau, M, Omotoriogun, TC, Obura, DO, Anderson, M, Portales-Reyes, C, Kirkman, K, Vergara, PM, Clark, AT, Komatsu, KJ, Petchey, OL, Weiskopf, SR, Williams, LJ, Collins, SL, Eisenhauer, N, Trisos, CH, Renard, D, Wright, AJ, Tripathi, P, Cowles, J, Byrnes, JEK, Reich, PB, Purvis, A, Sharip, Z, O’Connor, MI, Kazanski, CE, Haddad, NM, Soto, EH, Dee, LE, Díaz, S, Zirbel, CR, Avolio, ML, Wang, S, Ma, Z, Liang, J, Farah, HC, Johnson, JA, Miller, BW, Hautier, Y, Smith, MD, Knops, JMH, Myers, BJE, Harmáčková, ZV, Cortés, J, Harfoot, MBJ, Gonzalez, A, Newbold, T, Oehri, J, Mazón, M, Dobbs, C & Palmer, MS 2023, 'Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 94-103. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2536

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