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    • Stuart L. Pimm
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 370, P: 188

  • Conservationist who changed how we think about threats to biodiversity.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    • Peter H. Raven
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 4, P: 177-178

    • Stuart Sutherland
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 377, P: 692-693

  • Exploitation of the high seas risks doing irreversible damage to biodiversity, climate stability and ocean equity. A consensus must be built now to save them.

    • Callum M. Roberts
    • Emilia Dyer
    • Mark Lynas
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature
    Volume: 642, P: 34-37

  • Economists and ecologists have Joined forces to estimate the annual value of the services that Earth's ecosystems provide. Most services lie outside the market and are hard to calculate, yet minimum estimates equal or exceed global gross national product.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 387, P: 231-232

  • The terms sustainability, resilience and others group under the heading of ‘stability’. Their ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterize changes in complex social and environmental systems. In a bewildering array of terms, practical measurements are essential to permit comparisons and so untangle underlying relationships.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    • Ian Donohue
    • Michel Loreau
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Sustainability
    Volume: 2, P: 895-897

  • The authors model likely outcomes for the 33 isolated populations reported in the Fourth National Giant Panda Census under multiple RCP scenarios and with the provision of the planned Giant Panda National Park. They find that, although the National Park may connect some fragmented habitats, most of the populations with high extinction risk fall outside the current plans.

    • Lingqiao Kong
    • Weihua Xu
    • Zhiyun Ouyang
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 5, P: 1309-1316

  • Despite recent IUCN downgrading of the giant panda’s conservation status from ‘endangered’ to ‘vulnerable’, new GIS and remote sensing data reveal panda habitats to cover less area and be more fragmented than previously.

    • Weihua Xu
    • Andrés Viña
    • Zhiyun Ouyang
    Research
    Nature Ecology & Evolution
    Volume: 1, P: 1635-1638

  • Estimates of global forest area vary widely; this discrepancy is now shown to originate primarily from ambiguity in the definition of ‘forest’. Monitoring and reporting should focus on measures more directly relevant to ecosystem function.

    • Joseph O. Sexton
    • Praveen Noojipady
    • John R. Townshend
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 6, P: 192-196

  • Given that humans are here to stay on Earth for some time yet, what can we do to lessen our impact?

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 448, P: 135-136

  • Wheat, maize and the other grains constitute some 85% of global food production. But these plants are annuals, and they are usually grown in monoculture. The consequences are that harvesting them leaves the earth vulnerable to erosion; extra fertilizers are required for their growth; and they are especially prone to attack by pests and diseases. Could a more natural agricultural system, based on several perennial species, be both productive and avoid some of these problems? The prospects for such systems were discussed at a meeting last month.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 389, P: 126-127

  • Four British insect species have increased their geographical range as a result of climate warming. The underlying mechanisms vary from a change in food to an increase in habitat. Other species may not be quite so lucky.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 411, P: 531-532

  • Habitat destruction, especially of the humid forests in the tropics, is the main cause of the species extinctions happening now. New work documents the uneven, highly clumped distribution of vulnerable species on the Earth, and pinpoints 25 so-called ‘biodiversity hotspots’. Seventeen of them are tropical forest areas, and here reduction of natural habitat is disproportionately high. Nonetheless, identification of this pattern should enable resources for conservation to be better focused.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    • Peter Raven
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 403, P: 843-845

  • A novel approach to classifying biodiversity may aid attempts at conversation.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    Books & Arts
    Nature
    Volume: 402, P: 853-854

  • Twenty years ago a unique ecological experiment was set up, to monitor the effects of a rapid influx of people into one of the most sparsely populated areas in the world — the Amazon. Scientists have now met in Manau, Brazil, to discuss the results of this experiment. They conclude that of the two questions that caused controversy back in 1978, only one — that of forest edge effects — is still relevant.

    • Stuart L. Pimm
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 393, P: 23-24

  • In the second of three papers on the genetics of schizophrenia, a large genome-wide association study looking at common genetic variants underlying the risk of schizophrenia implicates the major histocompatibility complex — and thus, immunity — and provides molecular genetic evidence for a substantial polygenic component to the risk of schizophrenia. The latter involves thousands of common alleles of very small effect that also contribute to the risk of bipolar disorder.

    • Shaun M. Purcell
    • Naomi R. Wray
    • Pamela Sklar
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 460, P: 748-752

  • The genetics of schizophrenia and other mental disorders are complex and poorly understood, and made even harder to study due to reduced reproduction resulting in negative selection pressure on risk alleles. Two independent large-scale genome wide studies of thousands of patients and controls by two international consortia confirm a previously identified locus, but also reveal novel associations. In this study, deletions were reported on chromosomes 1 and 15, as well as a greater overall frequency of copy number variation in the genome.

    • Jennifer L. Stone
    • Michael C. O’Donovan
    • Pamela Sklar
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 455, P: 237-241