A. Purvis

Global trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050

The paper assesses historical and future trends in biodiversity and ecosystem services from 1900 to 2050, finding that biodiversity and regulating services have decreased while provisioning services increased, with climate change expected to worsen future losses.

Changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001-2012.

The paper estimates changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) across tropical and subtropical forest biomes from 2001 to 2012, showing an average decline of 2.4 percentage points.

The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis

This study synthesizes data on the impacts of first- and second-generation biofuel crops on local biodiversity, finding greater negative effects from first-generation crops.

Effects of land-use change and related pressures on alien and native subsets of island communities

The paper examines how land-use change and human pressures affect native and alien species on islands, finding that native species decline while alien species increase in disturbed areas.

Supporting global biodiversity assessment through high-resolution macroecological modelling: Methodological underpinnings of the BILBI framework

The paper introduces BILBI, a framework for high-resolution macroecological modelling of biodiversity patterns, refining beta-diversity mapping using generalized dissimilarity modelling across global species data.

Land-use and related pressures have reduced biotic integrity more on islands than on mainlands

The paper updates the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) to assess biotic integrity changes on islands versus mainlands, finding that islands have experienced greater declines in richness-based BII due to human pressures.

Risks to pollinators from different land-use transitions: bee species’ responses to agricultural expansion show strong phylogenetic signal

The paper assesses bee species' responses to agricultural expansion, intensification, and urbanization, finding strong phylogenetic signal in sensitivity to expansion but not intensification or urbanization.

Dynamism and context dependency in the diversification of the megadiverse plant genus Solanum L. (Solanaceae).

The paper examines how dispersal events and climatic changes have shaped the diversification of the plant genus Solanum, finding that Old World lineages are diversifying more rapidly following a long-distance dispersal event.

A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios

This paper describes a protocol for comparing biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios to assess future impacts and model uncertainties.