Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, especially at the large temporal and spatial scales that are most relevant for policy and conservation.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  2017-05-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/nature22899PMID 28569811PMCID PMC5460751
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