The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Matthews, Thomas J.; Triantis, Kostas A.; Wayman, Joseph P.; Martin, Thomas E.; Hume, Julian P.; Cardoso, Pedro; Faurby, Sren; Mendenhall, Chase D.; Dufour, Paul; Rigal, Francois; Cooke, Rob; Whittaker, Robert J.; Pigot, Alex L.; Thebaud, Christophe; Jorgensen, Maria Wagner; Benavides, Eva; Soares, Filipa C.; Ulrich, Werner; Kubota, Yasuhiro; Sadler, Jon P.; Tobias, Joseph A.; Sayol, Ferran
• 署名单位: University of Birmingham; University of Birmingham; Universidade dos Acores; Universidade dos Acores; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; Bangor University; Natural History Museum London; University of Helsinki; Universidade de Lisboa; University of Gothenburg; University of Gothenburg; Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE); Slippery Rock University - Pennsylvania; Universite de Montpellier; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite PSL; Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE); Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CNRS - Institute of Chemistry (INC); UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH); University of Oxford; University of Copenhagen; University of London; University College London; Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD); Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universidade de Lisboa; Nicolaus Copernicus University; University of the Ryukyus; Imperial College London; Centro de Investigacion Ecologica y Aplicaciones Forestales (CREAF-CERCA)
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-8725
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adk7898
• 发表日期: 2024-10-04
• 页码: 55-60
• 关键词: r package; bird; rates; dna

摘要

Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity-functional and phylogenetic diversity-are poorly understood. In this work, we show that, since the Late Pleistocene, the extinction of 610 bird species has caused a disproportionate loss of the global avian functional space along with similar to 3 billion years of unique evolutionary history. For island endemics, proportional losses have been even greater. Projected future extinctions of more than 1000 species over the next two centuries will incur further substantial reductions in functional and phylogenetic diversity. These results highlight the severe consequences of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and the urgent need to identify the ecological functions being lost through extinction.