Conservation actions based on red lists do not capture the functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Red Lists of threatened species play a critical role in conservation science and practice. However, policy-making based on Red Lists ignores ecological and evolutionary consequences of losing biodiversity because these lists focus on species alone. To decide if relying on Red Lists alone can help to conserve communities' functional (FD) and phylogenetic (PD) diversity, it is useful to evaluate whether Red List categories represent species with diverse ecological traits and evolutionary histories. Additionally, local scale analyses using regional Red Lists should represent more realistic pools of co-occurring species and thereby better capture eventual losses of FD and PD. Here, we used 21 life-history traits and a phylogeny for all Brazilian birds to determine whether species assigned unde

SUBMITTER: Hidasi-Neto J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3767746 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature