Conservation of terrestrial invertebrates: a review of IUCN and regional Red Lists for Myriapoda.

ABSTRACT: Red Listing of Threatened species is recognized as the most objective approach for evaluating extinction risk of living organisms which can be applied at global or national scales. Invertebrates account for nearly 97% of all animals on the planet but are insufficiently represented in the IUCN Red Lists at both scales. To analyze the occurrence of species present in regional Red Lists, accounts of 48 different countries and regions all over the world were consulted and all data about myriapods (Myriapoda) ever assessed in Red Lists at any level assembled. Myriapod species assessments were found in eleven regional Red Lists; however, no overlap between the species included in the global IUCN Red List and the regional ones was established. This means that myriapod species considered threatene

SUBMITTER: Karam-Gemael M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200887 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature