• Synergies between COVID-19 and climate change impacts and responses 

      Pelling, Mark; Kerr, Rachel Bezner; Biesbroek, Robert; Caretta, Martina Angela; Cissé, Guéladio; Costello, Mark John; Ebi, Kristie L.; Gunn, Elena Lopez; Parmesan, Camille; Schuster-Wallace, Corinne J.; Tirado, Maria Cristina; Van Aalst, Maarten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change are global crises. We show how strongly these crises are connected, including the underlying societal inequities and problems of poverty, substandard housing, and ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species I. Why taxonomists sometimes disagree, and why this matters. 

      Thiele, Kevin R.; Conix, Stijn; Pyle, Richard L.; Barik, Saroj K.; Christidis, Les; Costello, Mark John; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Kirk, Paul; Lien, Aaron; Thomson, Scott A.; Zachos, Frank E.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Garnett, Stephen T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Taxonomy—the delimitation, naming, classification and documentation of species and other taxa—is an often-misunderstood discipline. Complex and at times contested, taxonomy occupies a sometimes discomforting intermediate ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species II. Consequences of inadequate taxonomic list governance 

      Thomson, Scott A.; Thiele, Kevin; Conix, Stijn; Christidis, Les; Costello, Mark John; Hobern, Donald; Nikolaeva, Svetlana; Pyle, Richard L.; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Weaver, Haylee; Zachos, Frank E.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Garnett, Stephen T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Species lists are widely used in legislation and regulation to manage and conserve biodiversity. In this paper, we explore the issues caused by the lack of an adequately governed and universally accepted list of the world’s ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species III. Independence and stakeholder inclusion. 

      Conix, Stijn; Garnett, Stephen T.; Thiele, Kevin R.; Christidis, Les; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Bánki, Olaf S.; Barik, Saroj K.; Buckeridge, John S.; Costello, Mark John; Hobern, Donald; Kirk, Paul M.; Lien, Aaron; Nikolaeva, Svetlana; Pyle, Richard L.; Thomson, Scott A.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Zachos, Frank E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A global consensus list of the world’s species must be based on the best available taxonomic research, and its contents should not be biased towards certain political or social aims. At the same time, users of any global ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species IV : Overcoming fragmentation in the governance of taxonomic lists. 

      Lien, Aaron M.; Conix, Stijn; Zachos, Frank E.; Christidis, Les; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Bánki, Olaf S.; Barik, Saroj K.; Buckeridge, John S.; Costello, Mark John; Hobern, Donald; Montgomery, Narelle; Nikolaeva, Svetlana; Pyle, Richard L.; Thomson, Scott A.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Garnett, Stephen T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Governance is the act of governing or organizing, that is a system of rules, norms, or shared strategies to guide or regulate the actions of the governed. Since the initial development of Linnaean taxonomy, a diversity of ...
    • Towards a global list of accepted species V : the devil is in the detail. 

      Pyle, Richard L.; Barik, Saroj K.; Christidis, Les; Conix, Stijn; Costello, Mark John; van Dijk, Peter Paul; Garnett, Stephen T.; Hobern, Donald; Kirk, Paul M.; Lien, Aaron M.; Orrell, Thomas M.; Remsen, David; Thomson, Scott A.; Wambiji, Nina; Zachos, Frank E.; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Thiele, Kevin R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      A consensus among biologists has been growing in recent years for the development of a global list of accepted species (and other taxa). To date, much discussion has focused on visions for how such a list would benefit ...
    • Warm and cold temperatures limit the maximum body length of teleost fishes across a latitudinal gradient in Norwegian waters 

      Lavin, Charles Patrick; Gordo Vilaseca, Francesc; Costello, Mark John; Shi, Zhiyuan; Stephenson, Fabrice; Grüss, Arnaud (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
    • Warmer temperature decreases the maximum length of six species of marine fishes, crustacean, and squid in New Zealand 

      Lavin, Charles Patrick; Gordo Vilaseca, Francesc; Stephenson, Fabrice; Shi, Zhiyuan; Costello, Mark John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
    • Where marine protected areas would best represent 30% of ocean biodiversity 

      Zhao, Qianshuo; Stephenson, Fabrice; Lundquist, Carolyn; Kaschner, Kristin; Jayathilake, Dinusha R.M.; Costello, Mark John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The IUCN (the International Union for Conservation of Nature) World Conservation Congress called for the full protection of 30% of each marine habitat globally andat least 30% of all the ocean. Thus, we quantitatively ...