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A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

Overview of attention for article published in Science, October 2014
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Title
A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets
Published in
Science, October 2014
DOI 10.1126/science.1257484
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Derek P. Tittensor, Matt Walpole, Samantha L. L. Hill, Daniel G. Boyce, Gregory L. Britten, Neil D. Burgess, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Paul W. Leadley, Eugenie C. Regan, Rob Alkemade, Roswitha Baumung, Céline Bellard, Lex Bouwman, Nadine J. Bowles-Newark, Anna M. Chenery, William W. L. Cheung, Villy Christensen, H. David Cooper, Annabel R. Crowther, Matthew J. R. Dixon, Alessandro Galli, Valérie Gaveau, Richard D. Gregory, Nicolas L. Gutierrez, Tim L. Hirsch, Robert Höft, Stephanie R. Januchowski-Hartley, Marion Karmann, Cornelia B. Krug, Fiona J. Leverington, Jonathan Loh, Rik Kutsch Lojenga, Kelly Malsch, Alexandra Marques, David H. W. Morgan, Peter J. Mumby, Tim Newbold, Kieran Noonan-Mooney, Shyama N. Pagad, Bradley C. Parks, Henrique M. Pereira, Tim Robertson, Carlo Rondinini, Luca Santini, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, Stefan Schindler, U. Rashid Sumaila, Louise S.L. Teh, Jennifer van Kolck, Piero Visconti, Yimin Ye

Abstract

In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related "Aichi Targets" to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. We projected indicator trends to 2020 using an adaptive statistical framework that incorporated the specific properties of individual time series. On current trajectories, results suggest that despite accelerating policy and management responses to the biodiversity crisis, the impacts of these efforts are unlikely to be reflected in improved trends in the state of biodiversity by 2020. We highlight areas of societal endeavor requiring additional efforts to achieve the Aichi Targets, and provide a baseline against which to assess future progress.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 15 1%
Italy 9 <1%
United States 8 <1%
Germany 4 <1%
Denmark 4 <1%
Brazil 4 <1%
France 4 <1%
Switzerland 3 <1%
Spain 3 <1%
Other 27 2%
Unknown 1330 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 299 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 269 19%
Student > Master 198 14%
Student > Bachelor 132 9%
Other 72 5%
Other 214 15%
Unknown 227 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 475 34%
Environmental Science 409 29%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 52 4%
Social Sciences 38 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 2%
Other 109 8%
Unknown 305 22%
Attention Score in Context

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#133,149
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Outputs from Science
#4,126
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#1,189
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