The study, published in the journal Science Advances, highlights the importance of climate policies in reversing biodiversity loss across the planet, and points to amphibians as the group of vertebrates particularly affected by the combined effects of multiple threats.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, highlights the importance of climate policies in reversing biodiversity loss across the planet, and points to amphibians as the group of vertebrates particularly affected by the combined effects of multiple threats.
Interestingly, the study points out that populations affected solely by habitat loss or exploitation do not show the most pronounced declines. “The decline in vertebrate populations is much faster when they face several simultaneous threats (disease, invasive species, pollution or climate change, etc.) than when they are exposed to just one,” says Pol Capdevila, lead author of the article and member of the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences at the UB.
“However, in the study we also show that to shift biodiversity trends from negative to positive, conservation strategies must address multiple threats simultaneously,” says the author.
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Researcher Pol Capdevila, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) at the University of Barcelona. (Photo Credit: FBBVA)
