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Measuring trends in extinction risk: a review of two decades of development and...
Butchart, Stuart H. M.; Akçakaya, H. Resit; Berryman, Alex J.; Brooks, Thomas M.; Burfield, Ian J.; Chanson, Janice; Dias, Maria P.; Donaldson, John S.The Red List Index (RLI) is an indicator of the average extinction risk of groups of species and reflects trends in this through time. It is calculated from the number of species in each category on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, with trends influenced by the number moving between categories when reassessed owing to genuine improvement or deterioration in status. The global RLI is aggregated across mu...
Measuring the Impact of Conservation : The Growing Importance of Monitoring Fau...
Stephenson, P. J.; Londoño-Murcia, Maria Cecilia; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Claassens, Louw; Frisch-Nwakanma, Heidrun; Ling, NicholasMany stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and sustainably manage nature. Here we review the importance of enhancing biodiversity monitoring, assess the challenges involved and identify potential solutions. Capacity for biodiversity monitoring needs to be enhanced urgently, espe...
Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conser...
Grace, Molly K.; Akçakaya, H. Resit; Bennett, Elizabeth L.; Brooks, Thomas M.; Heath, Anna; Hedges, Simon; Hilton‐Taylor, Craig; Hoffmann, MichaelRecognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a "Green List of Species" (now the IUCN Green Status of Species). A draft Green Status framework for assessing species' progress toward recovery, published in 2018, proposed 2 separate but interlinked components: a standardized method (i.e.,...