16 research outputs found
Aspectos qualitativos e produção de biomassa em pastos de aveia e azevém cultivados puros ou consorciados e submetidos a pastejo leniente
Plant functional groups: scientometric analysis focused on removal experimentsPlant functional groups: scientometric analysis focused on removal experiments
Short‐term manipulation of precipitation in Mongolian steppe shows vegetation influenced more by timing than amount of rainfall
Community maturity, species saturation and the variant diversity?productivity relationships in grasslands
Evenness drives consistent diversity effects in intensive grassland systems across 28 European sites
Correlation between stand photosynthesis and composition at micro-scale in loess grassland
A human-induced downward-skewed elevational abundance distribution of pteridophytes in the Bolivian Andes
Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability
Global biodiversity policy is at a crossroads. Recent global assessments of living nature and climate show worsening trends and a rapidly narrowing window for action. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has recently announced that none of the 20 Aichi targets for biodiversity it set in 2010 has been reached and only six have been partially achieved. Against this backdrop, nations are now negotiating the next generation of the CBD's global goals [see supplementary materials (SM)], due for adoption in 2021, which will frame actions of governments and other actors for decades to come. In response to the goals proposed in the draft post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) made public by the CBD (5), we urge negotiators to consider three points that are critical if the agreed goals are to stabilize or reverse nature's decline. First, multiple goals are required because of nature's complexity, with different facets—genes, populations, species, deep evolutionary history, ecosystems, and their contributions to people—having markedly different geographic distributions and responses to human drivers. Second, interlinkages among these facets mean that goals must be defined and developed holistically rather than in isolation, with potential to advance multiple goals simultaneously and minimize trade-offs between them. Third, only the highest level of ambition in setting each goal, and implementing all goals in an integrated manner, will give a realistic chance of stopping—and beginning to reverse—biodiversity loss by 2050