Imperial College London
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Professor Andy Purvis

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Research Investigator
 
 
 
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Silwood ParkSilwood Park

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Díaz:2019:10.1126/science.aax3100,
author = {Díaz, S and Settele, J and Brondízio, ES and Ngo, HT and Agard, J and Arneth, A and Balvanera, P and Brauman, KA and Butchart, SHM and Chan, KMA and Garibaldi, LA and Ichii, K and Liu, J and Subramanian, SM and Midgley, GF and Miloslavich, P and Molnár, Z and Obura, D and Pfaff, A and Polasky, S and Purvis, A and Razzaque, J and Reyers, B and Chowdhury, RR and Shin, Y-J and Visseren-Hamakers, I and Willis, KJ and Zayas, CN},
doi = {10.1126/science.aax3100},
journal = {Science},
title = {Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aax3100},
volume = {366},
year = {2019}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The human impact on life on Earth has increased sharply since the 1970s, driven by the demands of a growing population with rising average per capita income. Nature is currently supplying more materials than ever before, but this has come at the high cost of unprecedented global declines in the extent and integrity of ecosystems, distinctness of local ecological communities, abundance and number of wild species, and the number of local domesticated varieties. Such changes reduce vital benefits that people receive from nature and threaten the quality of life of future generations. Both the benefits of an expanding economy and the costs of reducing nature's benefits are unequally distributed. The fabric of life on which we all depend-nature and its contributions to people-is unravelling rapidly. Despite the severity of the threats and lack of enough progress in tackling them to date, opportunities exist to change future trajectories through transformative action. Such action must begin immediately, however, and address the root economic, social, and technological causes of nature's deterioration.
AU  - Díaz,S
AU  - Settele,J
AU  - Brondízio,ES
AU  - Ngo,HT
AU  - Agard,J
AU  - Arneth,A
AU  - Balvanera,P
AU  - Brauman,KA
AU  - Butchart,SHM
AU  - Chan,KMA
AU  - Garibaldi,LA
AU  - Ichii,K
AU  - Liu,J
AU  - Subramanian,SM
AU  - Midgley,GF
AU  - Miloslavich,P
AU  - Molnár,Z
AU  - Obura,D
AU  - Pfaff,A
AU  - Polasky,S
AU  - Purvis,A
AU  - Razzaque,J
AU  - Reyers,B
AU  - Chowdhury,RR
AU  - Shin,Y-J
AU  - Visseren-Hamakers,I
AU  - Willis,KJ
AU  - Zayas,CN
DO  - 10.1126/science.aax3100
PY  - 2019///
TI  - Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change.
T2  - Science
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aax3100
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31831642
VL  - 366
ER  -
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