Ingram, DJ;
Braga Ferreira, G;
Jones, K;
MACE, GM;
(2021)
Targeting conservation actions at species threat response thresholds.
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
, 36
(3)
pp. 216-226.
10.1016/j.tree.2020.11.004.
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Abstract
To improve the status of the world’s biodiversity by 2030, conservation actions must not only seek to halt or slow biodiversity loss, they must increase species’ populations. A better mechanistic understanding of biodiversity loss and of species’ sensitivities to certain intensities of threats is needed to target conservation actions effectively. Moving beyond ordinal space-for-time substitution analyses, towards monitoring concurrent changes in threats and species’ populations over time will help achieve this. We propose a framework to quantify species’ response thresholds along gradients of threat intensity, using a combination of threat-sensitive taxa, biogeographic regions, and biomes. This framework will allow efficient targeting of conservation actions, of relevance to global policy-making.
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