Report for: Defaunation in the Anthropocene

Title	Defaunation in the Anthropocene
Published in	Science, July 2014
DOI	10.1126/science.1251817
Pubmed ID	25061202
Authors	Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Mauro Galetti, Gerardo Ceballos, Nick J. B. Isaac, Ben Collen
Abstract	We live amid a global wave of anthropogenically driven biodiversity loss: species and population extirpations and, critically, declines in local species abundance. Particularly, human impacts on animal biodiversity are an under-recognized form of global environmental change. Among terrestrial vertebrates, 322 species have become extinct since 1500, and populations of the remaining species show 25% average decline in abundance. Invertebrate patterns are equally dire: 67% of monitored populations show 45% mean abundance decline. Such animal declines will cascade onto ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Much remains unknown about this "Anthropocene defaunation"; these knowledge gaps hinder our capacity to predict and limit defaunation impacts. Clearly, however, defaunation is both a pervasive component of the planet's sixth mass extinction and also a major driver of global ecological change.

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Country	Count	As %
United States	96	18%
United Kingdom	56	10%
Australia	25	5%
Canada	20	4%
Spain	18	3%
Germany	8	1%
Sweden	6	1%
Colombia	6	1%
Denmark	5	<1%
Other	84	15%
Unknown	221	41%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	380	70%
Scientists	140	26%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	20	4%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	4	<1%
Unknown	1	<1%

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Country	Count	As %
Brazil	44	<1%
United States	36	<1%
United Kingdom	17	<1%
Mexico	11	<1%
Chile	7	<1%
Australia	7	<1%
Germany	7	<1%
Portugal	7	<1%
Canada	7	<1%
Other	64	1%
Unknown	4480	96%

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Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Master	861	18%
Student > Ph. D. Student	823	18%
Student > Bachelor	744	16%
Researcher	652	14%
Student > Doctoral Student	223	5%
Other	718	15%
Unknown	666	14%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	2032	43%
Environmental Science	1111	24%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	140	3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences	134	3%
Social Sciences	94	2%
Other	337	7%
Unknown	839	18%

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