TY - JOUR AB - Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary (‘safe limit’). We estimate that land use and related pressures have already reduced local biodiversity intactness – the average proportion of natural biodiversity remaining in local ecosystems – beyond its recently-proposed planetary boundary across 58.1% of the world’s land surface, where 71.4% of the human population live. Biodiversity intactness within most biomes (especially grassland biomes), most biodiversity hotspots, and even some wilderness areas, is inferred to be beyond the boundary. Such widespread transgression of safe limits suggests that biodiversity loss, if unchecked, will undermine efforts towards long-term sustainable development. AU - Newbold,T AU - Hudson,LN AU - Arnell,AP AU - Contu,S AU - De,Palma A AU - Ferrier,S AU - Hill,SLL AU - Hoskins,A AU - Lysenko,I AU - Phillips,HRP AU - Burton,VJ AU - Chng,CWT AU - Emerson,S AU - Gao,D AU - Pask-Hale,G AU - Hutton,J AU - Jung,M AU - Sanchez,Ortiz K AU - Simmons,BI AU - Whitmee,S AU - Zhang,H AU - Scharlemann,JPW AU - Purvis,A AU - Purvis,A DO - 10.1126/science.aaf2201 EP - 291 PY - 2016/// SN - 0036-8075 SP - 288 TI - Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment T2 - Science UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf2201 UR - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/288/tab-article-info UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/36651 VL - 353 ER -