Biodiversité

76 espèces d'oiseaux communs nichant en Bretagne sont menacés. 45 % des reptiles et amphibiens présents sur le territoire breton sont en déclin avéré. Le constat est sans appel. Le constat est sans appel. L'agriculture intensive, l'urbanisation croissante et l'artificialisation des sols, autrement dit l'activité humaine, pèsent lourd sur la faune sauvage dont l'espace de vie se réduit comme peau de chagrin.

Parmi les articles au sommaire :

- A catchment‐scale perspective of plastic pollution

- Four decades of functional community change reveals gradual trends and low interlinkage across trophic groups in a large marine ecosystem

- Future recovery of baleen whales is imperiled by climate change

Plastics have become an essential material of the modern global consumer economy, yet many of the properties that make them useful in so many applications also make them a serious environmental threat. As for much new technology, their development and proliferation occurred with little consideration for their impacts, but now it is impossible to deny their dark side as we confront a rapidly growing plastic pollution problem. In this special issue, we examine a range of topics related to plastics, from their distribution in the environment to their development into an evolutionary trap for animals to ways we can rethink them to create a better future.