More than half of data deficient species predicted to be threatened by extinction

J Borgelt, M Dorber, MA Høiberg, F Verones - Communications biology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is essential for practical and theoretical
efforts to protect biodiversity. However, species classified as “Data Deficient”(DD) regularly …

Measuring the impact of conservation: The growing importance of monitoring fauna, flora and funga

PJ Stephenson, MC Londoño-Murcia, PAV Borges… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need
to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and …

More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change

CCF Boonman, JM Serra-Diaz, S Hoeks… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Trees are pivotal to global biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, yet accelerating
global changes threaten global tree diversity, making accurate species extinction risk …

Bridging global knowledge gaps in biodiversity databases: a comprehensive data synthesis on tree diversity of India

MA Mugal, SA Wani, FA Dar, T Islam, R Gulzar… - Biodiversity and …, 2023 - Springer
Majority of global biodiversity databases lack sufficient coverage from the developing world
and thus severely limiting their worldwide applicability. Bridging these knowledge gaps in …

Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny

GHO Caetano, DG Chapple, R Grenyer, T Raz… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Red List of Threatened Species, published by the International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN), is a crucial tool for conservation decision-making. However, despite …

Low human interest for the most at-risk reef fishes worldwide

N Mouquet, J Langlois, N Casajus, A Auber… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Human interest in biodiversity is essential for effective conservation action but remains
poorly quantified at large scales. Here, we investigated human interest for 2408 marine reef …

Comprehensive conservation assessments reveal high extinction risks across Atlantic Forest trees

RAF de Lima, G Dauby, AL de Gasper, EP Fernandez… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Biodiversity is declining globally, yet many biodiversity hotspots still lack comprehensive
species conservation assessments. Using multiple International Union for Conservation of …

Population density estimates for terrestrial mammal species

L Santini, A Benítez‐López… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Population density is a key parameter in ecology and conservation, and estimates of
population density are required for a wide variety of applications in fundamental and applied …

Prioritizing the reassessment of data‐deficient species on the IUCN Red List

V Cazalis, L Santini, PM Lucas… - Conservation …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite being central to the implementation of conservation policies, the usefulness of the
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species is …

The likely extinction of hundreds of palm species threatens their contributions to people and ecosystems

S Bellot, Y Lu, A Antonelli, WJ Baker… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Protecting nature's contributions to people requires accelerating extinction risk assessment
and better integrating evolutionary, functional and used diversity with conservation planning …