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Biodiversity is continually declining, according to global biodiversity indicators (Butchart et al. in Science 328:1164-1168, 2010). Population trends, habitat extent, habitat condition, and composition of species communities-indicators of the state of diversity-are declining, while at the same time pressures on biodiversity posed by resource consumption, invasive alien species, pollution, overexploitation, and climate change are increasing. The rate of current loss of species is reported to be 100-1000 times the natural background rate (Chivian and Berstein in Sustaining life on earth. How human health depends on biodiversity. Oxford University Press, New York, 2008, Chivian and Berstein in How our health depends on biodiversity. Center for Health and the global environment. Harvard medical school, Boston, 2010; Pimm et al. in Science 344, 2014). Dramatic though that figure is, it underestimates the full loss of diversity because it ignores loss at both genetic and population level (Myers in Seeds and sovereignty. The use and control of plant genetic resources. Duke University Press, Durham, 1988; Mendenhall et al. in Biol Conserv 151:32-34, 2012). One of the first publications al

Author

Imke Thormann; Johannes M. M. Engels

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319256351

Subjects

Science, Nature, Stem