User profiles for Katia Sanchez-Ortiz

Katia Sánchez-Ortiz

UNEP-WCMC
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Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment

…, G Pask-Hale, J Hutton, M Jung, K Sanchez-Ortiz… - Science, 2016 - science.org
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”…

The database of the PREDICTS (projecting responses of ecological diversity in changing terrestrial systems) project

…, AN Robinson, K SanchezOrtiz… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing
Terrestrial Systems ( https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts.html )—has …

Challenges with inferring how land-use affects terrestrial biodiversity: study design, time, space and synthesis

A De Palma, K Sanchez-Ortiz, PA Martin… - Advances in ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Land use has already reshaped local biodiversity on Earth, with effects expected to increase
as human populations continue to grow in both numbers and prosperity. An accurate …

Modelling and projecting the response of local terrestrial biodiversity worldwide to land use and related pressures: the PREDICTS project

…, A De Palma, S Contu, SLL Hill, K Sanchez-Ortiz… - Advances in ecological …, 2018 - Elsevier
The PREDICTS project (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial
Systems) has collated ecological survey data from hundreds of published biodiversity …

Worldwide impacts of past and projected future land-use change on local species richness and the Biodiversity Intactness Index

SLL Hill, R Gonzalez, K Sanchez-Ortiz, E Caton… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Although people have modified the world around us throughout human history, the ‘Great
Acceleration’ has seen drivers such as land conversion, exploitation of natural populations, …

[HTML][HTML] Annual changes in the Biodiversity Intactness Index in tropical and subtropical forest biomes, 2001–2012

…, RE Gonzalez, L Börger, T Newbold, K Sanchez-Ortiz… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Few biodiversity indicators are available that reflect the state of broad-sense biodiversity—rather
than of particular taxa—at fine spatial and temporal resolution. One such indicator, the …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of land-use change and related pressures on alien and native subsets of island communities

K Sánchez-Ortiz, KJM Taylor, A De Palma, F Essl… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Island species and habitats are particularly vulnerable to human disturbances, and anthropogenic
changes are increasingly overwriting natural island biogeographic patterns. However, …

Land-use and related pressures have reduced biotic integrity more on islands than on mainlands

K Sanchez-Ortiz, RE Gonzalez, A De Palma… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Tracking progress towards biodiversity targets requires indicators that are sensitive to changes
at policy-relevant scales, can easily be aggregated to any spatial scale and are simple to …

Reply to 'The biodiversity intactness index may underestimate losses'

T Newbold, K Sanchez-Ortiz, A De Palma… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
To the Editor—We thank Martin et al. 1 for starting an interesting and important discussion.
They highlight some unexpected patterns in our spatial extrapolations of the abundance-…

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database

…, EL Pynegar, AN Robinson, K Sanchez-Ortiz… - 2016 - edepot.wur.nl
When users download data from the resources in this dataset (or make a request to cite the
data) they get a DOI that persistently identifies it. This DOI can specify a subset or the whole …