Integrating behaviour and ecology into global biodiversity conservation strategies.

ABSTRACT: Insights into animal behaviour play an increasingly central role in species-focused conservation practice. However, progress towards incorporating behaviour into regional or global conservation strategies has been more limited, not least because standardized datasets of behavioural traits are generally lacking at wider taxonomic or spatial scales. Here we make use of the recent expansion of global datasets for birds to assess the prospects for including behavioural traits in systematic conservation priority-setting and monitoring programmes. Using International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List classifications for more than 9500 bird species, we show that the incidence of threat can vary substantially across different behavioural categories, and that some types of behaviour-includi

SUBMITTER: Tobias JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6710563 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature