Functional representativeness and distinctiveness of reintroduced birds and mammals in Europe.

ABSTRACT: Reintroduction, the human-mediated movement of organisms to re-establish locally extinct populations, has become a popular conservation tool. However, because reintroductions often focus on local or national conservation issues, their contribution to the conservation of biodiversity at large scale remains unclear. While taxonomic biases have already been identified in reintroduction programs at regional scales, studies have stressed the need to account for other facets of biodiversity when assessing the relevance of the allocation of conservation efforts. In particular, it may be very fruitful to discriminate if and how such taxonomic biases may influence the functional complementarity of reintroduction targets, and to which extent reintroduction practitioners may have focused on species p

SUBMITTER: Thevenin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8904635 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature