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SCIENCE
Volume 330, Issue 6010, Pages 1496-1501Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1196624
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- Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the UK
- European Commission
- UNEP
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia [PTDC/AMB/73901/2006]
- NERC [cpb010001] Funding Source: UKRI
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [PTDC/AMB/73901/2006] Funding Source: FCT
- Natural Environment Research Council [cpb010001] Funding Source: researchfish
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Quantitative scenarios are coming of age as a tool for evaluating the impact of future socioeconomic development pathways on biodiversity and ecosystem services. We analyze global terrestrial, freshwater, and marine biodiversity scenarios using a range of measures including extinctions, changes in species abundance, habitat loss, and distribution shifts, as well as comparing model projections to observations. Scenarios consistently indicate that biodiversity will continue to decline over the 21st century. However, the range of projected changes is much broader than most studies suggest, partly because there are major opportunities to intervene through better policies, but also because of large uncertainties in projections.
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