Michael Hoffmann, Craig Hilton‐Taylor, Ariadne Angulo, Monika Böhm et al.
Assessing Biodiversity Declines Understanding human impact on biodiversity depends on sound quantitative projection. Pereira et al. (p. 1496 , published online 26 October) review quantitative scenarios that have been developed for four main areas of concern: species extinctions, species abundances a...
Monika Böhm, Ben Collen, Jonathan Baillie, Philip Bowles et al.
Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapi...
Axel Hochkirch, Michael J. Samways, Justin Gerlach, Monika Böhm et al.
Measuring progress toward international biodiversity targets requires robust information on the conservation status of species, which the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species provides. However, data and capacity are lacking for most hyperdiverse groups...
Shawan Chowdhury, Thomas Hesselberg, Monika Böhm, Mir Raihanul Islam et al.
Butterflies are important pollinators and indicators of environmental health. Habitat destruction and fragmentation caused by developmental activities and poor natural resource management are the main reasons for the drastic decline of butterfly populations throughout the world, and prompt the need ...
Elin A. Thomas, Monika Böhm, Caroline M. Pollock, Chong Chen et al.
Hydrothermal vents are rare deep-sea oases that house faunal assemblages with a similar density of life as coral reefs. Only approximately 600 of these hotspots are known worldwide, most only one-third of a football field in size. With advancing development of the deep-sea mining industry, there is ...
Shawan Chowdhury, Shihab Ahmad Shahriar, Monika Böhm, Anuj Jain et al.
Abstract Cities currently harbour more than half of the world’s human population and continued urban expansion replaces natural landscapes and increases habitat fragmentation. The impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity have been extensively studied in some parts of the world, but there is limited i...
Shawan Chowdhury, Richard A. Fuller, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Shofiul Alam et al.
The tropics contain a vast majority of species, yet our understanding of tropical biodiversity is limited. Here we combine species locality data from scientific databases and social media to examine the coverage of species by existing protected areas in Bangladesh and identify priority areas for fut...
Marianna Vachalcová, Gabriel Valočík, Marián Kurečko, Julia Grapsa et al.
AIMS: The aim of this pilot study was to compare selected three-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (3D STE) parameters in patients with ischaemic and non-ischaemic aetiology of heart failure (HF) and to identify indices that can differentiate the two pathologies. METHODS AND RESULTS: Fort...
Sebastian Pipins, Monika Böhm, Lucie M. Bland, Keith A. Crandall et al.
Abstract Crayfish are an ancient clade of freshwater decapods that play vital and diverse ecological roles in the freshwater systems that they inhabit. One third of assessed crayfish species are threatened with extinction and 87% are highly sensitive to climate change. However, the extent to which t...
Shawan Chowdhury, Richard A. Fuller, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Shofiul Alam et al.
Human-induced threats are severely impacting biodiversity globally. Although protected areas play an essential role in safeguarding biodiversity from anthropogenic threats, the performance of such areas in tropical countries remains poorly understood. Here we examined the capacity of protected areas...
Andreas Bruder, Isabel Rodrigues Fernandes, Red Calore, Pietro Marchese et al.
The biodiversity of aquatic fungi remains vastly underexplored, including the taxonomy and biogeography of species and their responses to environmental changes. Aquatic fungi contribute substantially to ecosystem processes and services, and interact with other organisms in aquatic food webs, as deco...
Sebastian Pipins, Monika Böhm, Lucie M. Bland, Keith A. Crandall et al.
ABSTRACT Crayfish are an ancient clade of freshwater decapods that play vital and diverse ecological roles in the freshwater systems that they inhabit. One third of assessed crayfish species is threatened with extinction and 87% are highly sensitive to climate change. However, the extent to which th...