New report in Nature "The global human impact on biodiversity"
The new article notes “Human activities drive a wide range of environmental pressures, including habitat change, pollution and climate change, resulting in unprecedented effects on biodiversity”
The authors show that “human pressures distinctly shift community composition and decrease local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.
Critically, the direction and magnitude of biodiversity changes vary across pressures, organisms and scales at which they are studied.”
Their “exhaustive global analysis reveals the general impact and key mediating factors of human pressures on biodiversity and can benchmark conservation strategies.”
Keck, F., Peller, T., Alther, R. et al. The global human impact on biodiversity. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08752-2
