Applying habitat and population-density models to land-cover time series to inform IUCN Red List assessments.

ABSTRACT: The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List categories and criteria are the most widely used framework for assessing the relative extinction risk of species. The criteria are based on quantitative thresholds relating to the size, trends, and structure of species' distributions and populations. However, data on these parameters are sparse and uncertain for many species and unavailable for others, potentially leading to their misclassification or classification as data deficient. We devised an approach that combines data on land-cover change, species-specific habitat preferences, population abundance, and dispersal distance to estimate key parameters (extent of occurrence, maximum area of occupancy, population size and trend, and degree of fragmentation) and hence pred

SUBMITTER: Santini L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6767507 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature