Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales

Forest Isbell (1) , Andrew Gonzalez (2) , Michel Loreau (3) , Jane Cowles (4) , Sandra Díaz (5) , Andy Hector (6) , Georgina Mace (7) , David Wardle (8) , Mary O'Connor (9) , J. Emmett Duffy (10) , Lindsay Turnbull (6) , Patrick Thompson (9) , Anne Larigauderie (11)

1 Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
2 McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
3 SETE - Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale
4 UMN - University of Minnesota [Twin Cities]
5 Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Argentina]
6 University of Oxford
7 UCL - University College of London [London]
8 Nanyang Technological University [Singapour]
9 UBC - University of British Columbia
10 Smithsonian Institution
11 IPBES - Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Biodiversity enhances many of nature's benefits to people, including the regulation of climate and the production of wood in forests, livestock forage in grasslands and fish in aquatic ecosystems. Yet people are now driving the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history. Human dependence and influence on biodiversity have mainly been studied separately and at contrasting scales of space and time, but new multiscale knowledge is beginning to link these relationships. Biodiversity loss substantially diminishes several ecosystem services by altering ecosystem functioning and stability, especially at the large temporal and spatial scales that are most relevant for policy and conservation.

Mots clés: Ecosystem; Biodiversity; People

Domaines: Biodiversité

Forest Isbell, Andrew Gonzalez, Michel Loreau, Jane Cowles, Sandra Díaz, et al.. Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales. Nature, 2017, 546 (7656), pp.65-72. ⟨10.1038/nature22899⟩. ⟨hal-02966947⟩