A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods.

ABSTRACT: Comprehensive assessments of species' extinction risks have documented the extinction crisis¹ and underpinned strategies for reducing those risks². Global assessments reveal that, among tetrapods, 40.7% of amphibians, 25.4% of mammals and 13.6% of birds are threatened with extinction³. Because global assessments have been lacking, reptiles have been omitted from conservation-prioritization analyses that encompass other tetrapods^4-7. Reptiles are unusually diverse in arid regions, suggesting that they may have different conservation needs⁶. Here we provide a comprehensive extinction-risk assessment of reptiles and show that at least 1,829 out of 10,196 species (21.1%) are threatened-confirming a previous extrapolation⁸ and re

SUBMITTER: Cox N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9095493 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature