10.7554/eLife.00590.001 The rapid expansion of human activities threatens ocean-wide
biodiversity. Numerous marine animal populations have declined, yet it remains unclear …

The impact of fishing on chondrichthyan stocks around the world is currently the focus of
considerable international concern. Most chondrichthyan populations are of low productivity …

Using data for 25,780 species categorized on the International Union for Conservation of
Nature Red List, we present an assessment of the status of the world’s vertebrates. One-fifth of …

The scale and drivers of marine biodiversity loss are being revealed by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment process. We present the first …

Anthropogenic global warming has significantly influenced physical and biological processes
at global and regional scales. The observed and anticipated changes in global climate …

The redistribution of life on Earth has emerged as one of the most significant biological
responses to anthropogenic climate warming 1 , 2 , 3 . Despite being one of the most long-…

Human impacts on the world's oceans have been substantial, leading to concerns about the
extinction of marine taxa. We have compiled 133 local, regional and global extinctions of …

A tenet of macroecology is that physiological processes of organisms are linked to large-scale
geographical patterns in environmental conditions. Species at higher latitudes experience …

Overfishing is the primary cause of marine defaunation, yet declines in and increasing
extinction risks of individual species are difficult to measure, particularly for the largest predators …

Physiological thermal-tolerance limits of terrestrial ectotherms often exceed local air temperatures,
implying a high degree of thermal safety (an excess of warm or cold thermal tolerance)…