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Future biodiversity scenarios primarily focus on climate change, neglecting critical land-use impacts. Integrating ecological and land system sciences is crucial for accurate risk assessment and effective biodiversity conservation policies.

Keywords:

biodiversity projections climate change ecological forecasting land system science land-cover change predictive models species distribution models storylines

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Ecology
Environmental Science
Conservation Biology

Background:

Biodiversity management necessitates forward-looking scenarios of future environmental conditions.
Ecological models have evolved to integrate complex processes influencing species distribution and community structure.
Biodiversity faces multiple threats, yet predictive studies often isolate single drivers.

Purpose of the Study:

To analyze trends in biodiversity scenario development over the past 25 years.
To assess the focus on different environmental change drivers in biodiversity projections.
To identify limitations in current modeling approaches and suggest improvements.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of studies projecting future biodiversity changes.
Analysis of scenario development based on climate, land-use, and land-cover change projections.
Evaluation of the integration between ecological and land system sciences.

Main Results:

Biodiversity scenarios increasingly emphasize climate change impacts, reaching a peak.
Studies largely neglect the significant and immediate threats of land-use and land-cover change.
Current research integration leads to biased risk estimations and hampers policy development.

Conclusions:

Overemphasis on climate change in biodiversity scenarios provides an incomplete picture of future risks.
Improved integration of ecological and land system sciences is vital for realistic biodiversity projections.
Collaborative research and an intergovernmental platform are needed to address biodiversity decline effectively.