Sources of confusion in global biodiversity trends DOI Creative Commons
Maëlys Boënnec, Vasilis Dakos,

Vincent Devictor

et al.

Oikos, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2024(6)

Published: April 12, 2024

Populations and ecological communities are changing worldwide, empirical studies exhibit a mixture of either declining or mixed trends. Confusion in global biodiversity trends thus remains, while assessing such changes is major social, political, scientific importance. Part this variability may arise from the difficulty to reliably assess Here, we conducted literature review documenting temporal dynamics biodiversity. We classified differences among approaches, data, methodology used by reviewed papers reveal common findings sources discrepancies. show that reviews meta‐analyses, along with use indicators, more likely conclude declining. On other hand, longer data available, nuanced they generate. Our results also highlight lack providing information on impact synergistic pressures scale, making it even difficult understand driving factors observed how decide conservation plan accordingly. Finally, stress importance taking into account confusion identified, as well complexity changes, order implement effective strategies. In particular, almost systematically assumed be linear, non‐linear largely neglected. Clarifying should strengthen large‐scale monitoring conservation.

Language: Английский

Sources of confusion in global biodiversity trends DOI Creative Commons
Maëlys Boënnec, Vasilis Dakos,

Vincent Devictor

et al.

Oikos, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 2024(6)

Published: April 12, 2024

Populations and ecological communities are changing worldwide, empirical studies exhibit a mixture of either declining or mixed trends. Confusion in global biodiversity trends thus remains, while assessing such changes is major social, political, scientific importance. Part this variability may arise from the difficulty to reliably assess Here, we conducted literature review documenting temporal dynamics biodiversity. We classified differences among approaches, data, methodology used by reviewed papers reveal common findings sources discrepancies. show that reviews meta‐analyses, along with use indicators, more likely conclude declining. On other hand, longer data available, nuanced they generate. Our results also highlight lack providing information on impact synergistic pressures scale, making it even difficult understand driving factors observed how decide conservation plan accordingly. Finally, stress importance taking into account confusion identified, as well complexity changes, order implement effective strategies. In particular, almost systematically assumed be linear, non‐linear largely neglected. Clarifying should strengthen large‐scale monitoring conservation.

Language: Английский

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