Conservation

Conservation Articles

UN Goal 15 • Life on Land

The decline of farmland birds in Spain is strongly associated to the loss of fallowland

Juan Traba & Manuel B. Morales, Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 9473 (2019)
UN Goal 9 • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

High-risk infrastructure projects pose imminent threats to forests in Indonesian Borneo

Mohammed Alamgir, Mason J. Campbell, Sean Sloan, Ali Suhardiman, Jatna Supriatna & William F. Laurance, Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 140 (2019)
UN Goal 13 • Climate Action

Extreme thermal fluctuations from climate change unexpectedly accelerate demographic collapse of vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination

Nicole Valenzuela, Robert Literman, Jennifer L. Neuwald, Beatriz Mizoguchi, John B. Iverson, Julia L. Riley & Jacqueline D. Litzgus, Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 4254 (2019)
UN Goal 13 • Climate Action

Projected impacts of climate change on functional diversity of frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient

Irene M. A. Bender, W. Daniel Kissling, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Isabell Hensen, Ingolf Kühn, Larissa Nowak, Till Töpfer, Thorsten Wiegand, D. Matthias Dehling & Matthias Schleuning, Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 17708 (2019)
UN Goal 11 • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Global areas of low human impact (‘Low Impact Areas’) and fragmentation of the natural world

Andrew P. Jacobson, Jason Riggio, Alexander M. Tait & Jonathan E. M. Baillie, Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 14179 (2019)
UN Goal 14 • Life Below Water

Recent pace of change in human impact on the world’s ocean

Benjamin S. Halpern, Melanie Frazier, Jamie Afflerbach, Julia S. Lowndes, Fiorenza Micheli, Casey O’Hara, Courtney Scarborough & Kimberly A. Selkoe Sci Rep 9, Article Number 11609 (2019).
UN Goal 15 • Life on Land

Wolves contribute to disease control in a multi-host system

E. Tanner, A. White, P. Acevedo, A. Balseiro, J. Marcos & C. Gortázar, Sci Rep 9, 7940 (2019).
UN Goal 11 • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Changes in adult sex ratio in wild bee communities are linked to urbanization

Gordon Fitch, Paul Glaum, Maria-Carolina Simao, Chatura Vaidya, Jill Matthijs, Benjamin Iuliano & Ivette Perfecto, Sci Rep 9, 3767 (2019).