Interacting regional-scale regime shifts for biodiversity and ecosystem services

BioScience

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 665-679

  Leadley, Paul ^a   Proença, Vânia ^b   Fernández Manjarrés, Juan ^a   Pereira, Henrique Miguel ^c,d,e   Alkemade, Rob ^f   Biggs, Reinette ^g,h   Bruley, Enora ^a   Cheung, William ⁱ   Cooper, David ^j   Figueiredo, Joana ^k   Gilman, Eric ^l   Guénette, Sylvie ^m   Hurtt, George ⁿ   Mbow, Cheikh ^o   Oberdorff, Thierry ^p   Revenga, Carmen ^q   Scharlemann, Jörn P W ^r,s   Scholes, Robert ^t   Smith, Mark Stafford ^u   Sumaila, U Rashid ⁱ   Walpole, Matt ^r   more..

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c GERMAN CENTRE FOR INTEGRATIVE BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH IDIV HALLE JENA LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^g STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^h STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^j Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity   (Canada)

^k NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l HAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m EcOceans   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^o WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^p French Research Institute for Development   (United States)

^q THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^r UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^t Future production Chemicals Cluster   (South Africa)

^u CSIRO   (Australia)

more..

Author keywords

Biodiversity change; Human environment interactions; South America; Southeast Asia; Tipping points

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905649346     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biu093     Document Type: Review

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