Supplementary material from "Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts"
Ecological baselines—reference states of species' distributions and abundances—are key to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and management interventions, as well as to the public support to such interventions. Yet societal as well as scientific perceptions of these baselin...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4673534.v1 2023-05-15T15:36:00+02:00 Supplementary material from "Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts" Rodrigues, Ana S. L. Monsarrat, Sophie Charpentier, Anne Brooks, Thomas M. Hoffmann, Michael Reeves, Randall Palomares, Maria L. D. Turvey, Samuel T. 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4673534.v1 https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_Unshifting_the_baseline_a_framework_for_documenting_historical_population_changes_and_assessing_long-term_anthropogenic_impacts_/4673534/1 unknown The Royal Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0220 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4673534 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Environmental Science Ecology FOS Biological sciences Collection article 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4673534.v1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0220 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4673534 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Ecological baselines—reference states of species' distributions and abundances—are key to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and management interventions, as well as to the public support to such interventions. Yet societal as well as scientific perceptions of these baselines are often based on ecosystems that have been deeply transformed by human actions. Despite increased awareness about the pervasiveness and implications of this shifting baseline syndrome, ongoing global assessments of the state of biodiversity do not take into account the long-term, cumulative, anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Here, we propose a new framework for documenting such impacts, by classifying populations according to the extent to which they deviate from a baseline in the absence of human actions. We apply this framework to the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) to illustrate how it can be used to assess populations with different geographies and timeline of known or suspected impacts. Through other examples, we discuss how the framework can be applied to populations for which there is a wide diversity of existing knowledge, by making the best use of the available ecological, historical and archaeological data. Combined across multiple populations, this framework provides a standard for assessing cumulative anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity.This article is part of the discussion meeting issue ‘The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation?’. Article in Journal/Newspaper Balaena mysticetus bowhead whale DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Ecological baselines—reference states of species' distributions and abundances—are key to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and management interventions, as well as to the public support to such interventions. Yet societal as well as scientific perceptions of these baselines are often based on ecosystems that have been deeply transformed by human actions. Despite increased awareness about the pervasiveness and implications of this shifting baseline syndrome, ongoing global assessments of the state of biodiversity do not take into account the long-term, cumulative, anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Here, we propose a new framework for documenting such impacts, by classifying populations according to the extent to which they deviate from a baseline in the absence of human actions. We apply this framework to the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) to illustrate how it can be used to assess populations with different geographies and timeline of known or suspected impacts. Through other examples, we discuss how the framework can be applied to populations for which there is a wide diversity of existing knowledge, by making the best use of the available ecological, historical and archaeological data. Combined across multiple populations, this framework provides a standard for assessing cumulative anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity.This article is part of the discussion meeting issue ‘The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation?’. |
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Rodrigues, Ana S. L. Monsarrat, Sophie Charpentier, Anne Brooks, Thomas M. Hoffmann, Michael Reeves, Randall Palomares, Maria L. D. Turvey, Samuel T. |
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Rodrigues, Ana S. L. Monsarrat, Sophie Charpentier, Anne Brooks, Thomas M. Hoffmann, Michael Reeves, Randall Palomares, Maria L. D. Turvey, Samuel T. |
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Supplementary material from "Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts" |
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Supplementary material from "Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts" |
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Supplementary material from "Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts" |
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Supplementary material from "Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts" |
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Supplementary material from "Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts" |
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supplementary material from "unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts" |
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