Biodiversity loss is happening at a faster rate in the tropical regions of the world, with changes in marine ecosystems outpacing those on land, according to a study that can help prioritise global conservation strategies. The findings of the study by an international team of scientists, published in the journal Science, revealed that there were both negative and positive changes in ecosystems across the world, and while on average the numbers of species living in each place was not changing, many regions were either gaining or losing species. The researchers pieced together and mapped more than 50,000 data points on the chronological changes in biodiversity from studies across the planet using the database BioTIME.
Global biodiversity is in crisis, with tropical oceans hardest hit
