Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline.
But what if that baseline has already changed?
In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9)
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Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends
Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land-use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land-use gradi...