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Title:
Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity
Authors:
Cardinale, Bradley J.; Duffy, J. Emmett; Gonzalez, Andrew; Hooper, David U.; Perrings, Charles; Venail, Patrick; Narwani, Anita; Mace, Georgina M.; Tilman, David; Wardle, David A.; Kinzig, Ann P.; Daily, Gretchen C.; Loreau, Michel; Grace, James B.; Larigauderie, Anne; Srivastava, Diane S.; Naeem, Shahid
Affiliation:
AA(School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; ), AB(Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062, USA), AC(McGill University, Department of Biology, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1B1, Canada), AD(Western Washington University, Department of Biology, Bellingham, Washington 98225, USA), AE(School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA), AF(School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA), AG(School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA), AH(Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park SL5 7PY, UK), AI(Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA), AJ(Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S- 901 83 Umeå, Sweden), AK(School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA), AL(Department of Biology and Woods Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA), AM(Station d'Ecologie Expérimentale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 09200 Moulis, France), AN(US Geological Survey, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, Louisiana 70506, USA), AO(Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 57, Rue Cuvier, CP 41 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France), AP(Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada), AQ(Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA)
Publication:
Nature, Volume 486, Issue 7401, pp. 59-67 (2012). (Nature Homepage)
Publication Date:
06/2012
Origin:
NATURE
Abstract Copyright:
(c) 2012: Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.
DOI:
10.1038/nature11148
Bibliographic Code:
2012Natur.486...59C

Abstract

The most unique feature of Earth is the existence of life, and the most extraordinary feature of life is its diversity. Approximately 9 million types of plants, animals, protists and fungi inhabit the Earth. So, too, do 7 billion people. Two decades ago, at the first Earth Summit, the vast majority of the world's nations declared that human actions were dismantling the Earth's ecosystems, eliminating genes, species and biological traits at an alarming rate. This observation led to the question of how such loss of biological diversity will alter the functioning of ecosystems and their ability to provide society with the goods and services needed to prosper.
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