A Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation in 2019

• Published in: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• Main Authors: Sutherland, William J., Broad, Steven, Butchart, Stuart H.M., Clarke, Stewart J., Collins, Alexandra M., Dicks, Lynn V., Doran, Helen, Esmail, Nafeesa, Fleishman, Erica, Frost, Nicola, Gaston, Kevin J., Gibbons, David W., Hughes, Alice C., Jiang, Zhigang, Kelman, Ruth, Leanstey, Becky, Roux, Xavier, Le, Lickorish, Fiona A., Monk, Kathryn A., Mortimer, Diana, Pearce-Higgins, James W., Peck, Lloyd S., Pettorelli, Nathalie, Pretty, Jules, Seymour, Colleen L., Spalding, Mark D., Wentworth, Jonathan, Ockendon, Nancy
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Ecologie Microbienne - UMR 5557 (LEM), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon (ENVL)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NERC Natural Environment Research Council; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; National Research Foundation - South Africa; NERC Natural Environment Research Council NE/N014472/1; Basic Science Special Project of MOST 2013FY110300 CAS NOXDA19050204; Arcadia; BiodivERsA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: biodiversity; conservation; emerging topics; foresight; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://univ-lyon1.hal.science/hal-02473992; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.001

International audience We present the results of our tenth annual horizon scan. We identified 15 emerging priority topics that may have major positive or negative effects on the future conservation of global biodiversity, but currently have low awareness within the conservation community. We hope to increase research and policy attention on these areas, improving the capacity of the community to mitigate impacts of potentially negative issues, and maximise the benefits of issues that provide opportunities. Topics include advances in crop breeding, which may affect insects and land use; manipulations of natural water flows and weather systems on the Tibetan Plateau; release of carbon and mercury from melting polar ice and thawing permafrost; new funding schemes and regulations; and land-use changes across Indo-Malaysia.