Rapid Least Concern: towards automating Red List assessments.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species^TM (hereafter the Red List) is an important global resource for conservation that supports conservation planning, safeguarding critical habitat and monitoring biodiversity change (Rodrigues et al. 2006). However, a major shortcoming of the Red List is that most of the world's described species have not yet been assessed and published on the Red List (Bachman et al. 2019Eisenhauer et al. 2019). Conservation efforts can be better supported if the Red List is expanded to achieve greater coverage of mega-diverse groups of organisms such as plants, fungi and invertebrates. There is, therefore, an urgent need to speed up the Red List assessment and documentation workflow.One reason for this lack of species coverage is that a ma

SUBMITTER: Bachman S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6992691 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature