Brennen T. Fagan

Aug 8, 2024 | resilience.org | Jonathan Gordon |Brennen T. Fagan

You don’t need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant species have died out. Humans have now appropriated over half of the Earth’s surface for farms and urban areas, and this is primarily to blame for these recent declines in global biodiversity. But humans didn’t suddenly appear in the year 1500.

Jul 29, 2024 | phys.org | Jonathan Gordon |Brennen T. Fagan

You don't need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant species have died out.

Jul 29, 2024 | businessgreen.com | Jonathan Gordon |Brennen T. Fagan

You don't need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species...

Jul 26, 2024 | theconversation.com | Jonathan Gordon |Brennen T. Fagan

You don’t need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant species have died out. Humans have now appropriated over half of the Earth’s surface for farms and urban areas, and this is primarily to blame for these recent declines in global biodiversity. But humans didn’t suddenly appear in the year 1500.

Jul 7, 2024 | nature.com | Jonathan Gordon |Brennen T. Fagan |Nicky Milner

AbstractHumans have caused growing levels of ecosystem and diversity changes at a global scale in recent centuries but longer-term diversity trends and how they are affected by human impacts are less well understood. Analysing data from 64,305 pollen samples from 1,763 pollen records revealed substantial community changes (turnover) and reductions in diversity (richness and evenness) in the first ~1,500 to ~4,000 years of the Holocene epoch (starting 11,700 years ago).