Periodic Reporting for period 1 - BaseShift (Shifting the baseline and assessing its impact on the status and trends of biodiversity and its implication for decision-making in conservation)

Centuries-old fur trade and whaling logbooks revealed that the native ranges of beavers in Canada and humpback whales in the Atlantic are likely quite larger than current data led to believe. In contrast, 16th century material showed that rather than being native to Spain and...