The Challenge of Measuring Global Change in Wild Nature: Are Things Getting Better or Worse?

Author: Jenkins, M., Green, R. E. & Madden, J.
Date Published: January 2003

Conservation Biology 17 (1)

We briefly review recent global trends in habitat area in as many broadly-defined natural habitats as possible, and in indices of animal populations characteristic of those habitats. The information available indicates continuing declines in habitat area and species, but those data are extremely sparse.