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Trends in the state of nature and their implications for human well‐being
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Two major international initiatives – the Convention on Biological Diversity's target to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment – raise the profile of ecological data on the changing state of nature and its implications for human well‐being. This paper is intended to provide a broad overview of current knowledge of these issues. Information on changes in the status of species, size of populations, and extent and condition of habitats is patchy, with little data available for many of the taxa, regions and habitats of greatest importance to the delivery of ecosystem services. However, what we do know strongly suggests that, while exceptions exist, the changes currently underway are for the most part negative, anthropogenic in origin, ominously large and accelerating. The impacts of these changes on human society are idiosyncratic and patchily understood, but for the most part also appear to be negative and substantial. Forecasting future changes is limited by our poor understanding of the cascading impacts of change within communities, of threshold effects, of interactions between the drivers of change, and of linkages between the state of nature and human well‐being. In assessing future science needs, we not only see a strong role for ecological data and theory, but also believe that much closer collaboration with social and earth system scientists is essential if ecology is to have a strong bearing on policy makers.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Balmford, A., & Bond, W.
- Venue
- Ecology Letters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-09-13
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1218-1234
- ISSN
- 1461-023X (ISSN-L)
- 1461-0248
- OpenAlex
- W1581981374
- Cited by
- 313
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 14.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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