Just published in Nature, a major paper classifying all ecosystems on Earth, a basis for ecosystem-based conservation and for IUCN's Red List of Ecosystems. The leader of the project was David Keith and University of New South Wales. Janet was one of 41 authors who contributed. Here is another posting about it as well
“Now we are in a position to take that next step of treating ecosystems globally as units of conservation — really looking at threats to ecosystems in order to assess on a large scale and compare across regions to determine which ecosystems are on the edge”
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