Using historical and palaeoecological data to inform ambitious species recovery targets.

ABSTRACT: Historical data are a valuable resource for addressing present-day conservation issues, for example by informing the establishment of appropriate recovery targets. However, while the recovery of threatened species is the end goal of many conservation programmes, data made available through the efforts of palaeoecologists and historical ecologists are rarely consulted. The proposal of a 'Green List of Species' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) will soon change this. The Green List of Species measures recovery against historical baselines; in particular, the method requires estimates of species range and abundance in previous centuries. In this paper, we present the case for why setting species recovery against a historical baseline is necessary to produce ambitiou

SUBMITTER: Grace M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863500 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature