A simple, sufficient, and consistent method to score the status of threats and demography of imperiled species.

ABSTRACT: Managers of large, complex wildlife conservation programs need information on the conservation status of each of many species to help strategically allocate limited resources. Oversimplifying status data, however, runs the risk of missing information essential to strategic allocation. Conservation status consists of two components, the status of threats a species faces and the species' demographic status. Neither component alone is sufficient to characterize conservation status. Here we present a simple key for scoring threat and demographic changes for species using detailed information provided in free-form textual descriptions of conservation status. This key is easy to use (simple), captures the two components of conservation status without the cost of more detailed measures (sufficien

SUBMITTER: Malcom JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4950543 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature