CAVE CONSERVATION
; GROUNDWATER
; BIODIVERSITY
; ECOLOGY
; WATER
; MANAGEMENT
; CHINA
; LIFE
; SHORTFALLS
; STRATEGY
WOS学科分类:
Biology
WOS研究方向:
Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics
英文摘要:
In light of recent alarming trends in human population growth, climate change, and other environmental modifications, a Warning to humanity manifesto was published in BioScience in 2017. This call reiterated most of the ideas originally expressed by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1992, including the fear that we are pushing Earth's ecosystems beyond their capacities to support the web of life. As subterranean biologists, we take this opportunity to emphasize the global importance and the conservation challenges associated with subterranean ecosystems. They likely represent the most widespread nonmarine environments on Earth, but specialized subterranean organisms remain among the least documented and studied. Largely overlooked in conservation policies, subterranean habitats play a critical role in the function of the web of life and provide important ecosystem services. We highlight the main threats to subterranean ecosystems and propose a set of effective actions to protect this globally important natural heritage.
1.Univ Turin, Dept Life Sci & Syst Biol, Turin, Italy 2.Univ Helsinki, Finnish Museum Nat Hist, Lab Integrat Biodivers Res, Helsinki, Finland 3.IUCN SSC Spider & Scorp Specialist Grp, Helsinki, Finland 4.Amer Univ, Dept Environm Sci, Washington, DC 20016 USA 5.Sorbonne Univ, Museum Natl Hist Nat, Inst Systemat, Evolut,Biodiversite, Paris, France 6.Univ Fed Lavras, Biol Dept, Ctr Studies Subterranean Biol, Lavras, Brazil 7.Univ Ljubljana, Dept Biol, SubBio Lab, Ljubljana, Slovenia 8.Univ Aquila, Dept Life Hlth & Environm Sci, Laquila, Italy 9.Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Inst Groundwater Ecol, Neuherberg, Germany 10.Univ Vienna, Ctr Funct Ecol, Div Limnol, Vienna, Austria 11.Bennelongia Environm Consultants, Jolimont, Australia 12.Univ Western Australia, Sch Biol Sci, Crawley, Australia 13.Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lab Ecol Hydrosyst Nat & Anthropises, Villeurbanne, France 14.CNR, IRSA Water Res Inst, Verbania, Italy 15.Emil Racovitza Inst Speleol, Cluj Napoca, Romania 16.Univ Alabama, Dept Biol Sci, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA 17.Univ Barcelona, Dept Evolutionary Biol Ecol & Environm Sci, Barcelona, Spain 18.Univ Barcelona, Biodivers Res Inst, Barcelona, Spain 19.Croatian Biospeleol Soc, Zagreb, Croatia 20.Nat Hist Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark 21.Univ Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 22.Univ Coll Dublin, Sch Biol & Environm Sci, Dublin, Ireland 23.No Arizona Univ, Merriam Powell Ctr Environm Res, Dept Biol Sci, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
Recommended Citation:
Mammola, Stefano,Cardoso, Pedro,Culver, David C.,et al. Scientists' Warning on the Conservation of Subterranean Ecosystems[J]. BIOSCIENCE,2019-01-01,69(8):641-650