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Ecosystem Articles

UN Goal 15 • Life on Land

Andean Tectonics and Mantle Dynamics as a Pervasive Influence on Amazonian Ecosystem

Tacio Cordeiro Bicudo, Victor Sacek, Renato Paes de Almeida, John M. Bates & Camila Cherem Ribas Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 16879 (2019)
UN Goal 14 • Life Below Water

Biological and environmental drivers of trophic ecology in marine fishes – a global perspective

Hayden, B., Palomares, M.L.D., Smith, B.E. et al. Scientific Reports volume 9, Article number: 11415 (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 14 • Life Below Water

Killer whales redistribute white shark foraging pressure on seals

Salvador J. Jorgensen, Scot Anderson, Francesco Ferretti, James R. Tietz, Taylor Chapple, Paul Kanive, Russell W. Bradley, Jerry H. Moxley & Barbara A. Block, Sci Rep 9, 6153 (2019)