How can animal tracking be used to address biodiversity loss? We do a decent job of monitoring population levels for many species—in many cases, we know when populations go up and down.

Even among animal emojis, there was imbalance. Vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, represented 76% of available animal emoji taxa.

However, emoji biodiversity does appear to be increasing. In 2015, there were only emojis for 45 animal taxa, but this increased to 78 in 2019 and 92 in 2022.

More information: Alice S. A. Johnston, Predicting emergent animal biodiversity patterns across multiple scales, Global Change Biology (2024). DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17397 ...

Concerted cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary action can be embedded in the next 10-year global framework for biodiversity – currently being negotiated among countries through the CBD process ...

In 2004, I learned of a 2003 book, Animal Innovation, edited by biologists Simon Reader and Kevin Laland, and an article by the biologist Allison Kaufman and the psychologist James Kaufman titled “ ...

Measuring land restoration efforts should include the target area’s animal biodiversity, a recent study by Charles Darwin University shows. In the paper, which was published in the journal ...

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