Georgina M. Mace, Nigel Collar, Kevin J. Gaston, Craig Hilton‐Taylor et al.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species was increasingly used during the 1980s to assess the conservation status of species for policy and planning purposes. This use stimulated the development of a new set of quantitative criteria for listing species...
Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, Jürgen Niedballa, John D. Pilgrim, Boris Schröder et al.
Abstract Aim Advancement in ecological methods predicting species distributions is a crucial precondition for deriving sound management actions. Maximum entropy (MaxEnt) models are a popular tool to predict species distributions, as they are considered able to cope well with sparse, irregularly samp...
Helge Bruelheide, Jürgen Dengler, Oliver Purschke, Jonathan Lenoir et al.
Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from these trade-offs because different strategies can f...
Mélodie A. McGeoch, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Dian Spear, Elrike Marais et al.
Abstract Aim Invasive alien species (IAS) pose a significant threat to biodiversity. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s 2010 Biodiversity Target, and the associated indicator for IAS, has stimulated globally coordinated efforts to quantify patterns in the extent of biological invasion, its imp...
Güven Eken, Leon Bennun, Thomas M. Brooks, Will Darwall et al.
Site conservation is among the most effective means to reduce global biodiversity loss. Therefore, it is critical to identify those sites where unique biodiversity must be conserved immediately. To this end, the concept of key biodiversity areas (KBAs) has been developed, seeking to identify and, ul...
Emily Beech, Malin Rivers, Sara Oldfield, Paul Smith
This article presents, for the first time, an overview of all known tree species by scientific name and country level distribution, and describes an online database—GlobalTreeSearch—that provides access to this information. Based on our comprehensive analysis of published data sources and expert inp...
Stuart H. M. Butchart, H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Janice Chanson, Jonathan Baillie et al.
The Red List Index uses information from the IUCN Red List to track trends in the projected overall extinction risk of sets of species. It has been widely recognised as an important component of the suite of indicators needed to measure progress towards the international target of significantly redu...
Michael A. Huston, Lonnie W. Aarssen, M. P. Austin, Brian S. Cade et al.
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Cindy Q. Tang, Tetsuya Matsui, Haruka Ohashi, Yi-Fei Dong et al.
Today East Asia harbors many "relict" plant species whose ranges were much larger during the Paleogene-Neogene and earlier. The ecological and climatic conditions suitable for these relict species have not been identified. Here, we map the abundance and distribution patterns of relict species, showi...
Helge Bruelheide, Jürgen Dengler, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Oliver Purschke et al.
Abstract Aims Vegetation‐plot records provide information on the presence and cover or abundance of plants co‐occurring in the same community. Vegetation‐plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers and, thus, are rarely accessible at continen...
H. Reşi̇t Akçakaya, Elizabeth L. Bennett, Thomas M. Brooks, Molly K. Grace et al.
Stopping declines in biodiversity is critically important, but it is only a first step toward achieving more ambitious conservation goals. The absence of an objective and practical definition of species recovery that is applicable across taxonomic groups leads to inconsistent targets in recovery pla...
Arun K. Bose, Arthur Geßler, Andreas Bolte, Alessandra Bottero et al.
Global climate change is expected to further raise the frequency and severity of extreme events, such as droughts. The effects of extreme droughts on trees are difficult to disentangle given the inherent complexity of drought events (frequency, severity, duration, and timing during the growing seaso...
David A. Keith, Jon Paul Rodrı́guez, Thomas M. Brooks, Mark A. Burgman et al.
Abstract In response to growing demand for ecosystem‐level risk assessment in biodiversity conservation, and rapid proliferation of locally tailored protocols, the IUCN recently endorsed new Red List criteria as a global standard for ecosystem risk assessment. Four qualities were sought in the desig...
Yuanye Zhang, Da‐Yong Zhang, Spencer C. H. Barrett
Aquatic plant invasions are often associated with long-distance dispersal of vegetative propagules and prolific clonal reproduction. These reproductive features combined with genetic bottlenecks have the potential to severely limit genetic diversity in invasive populations. To investigate this quest...
Eric Wikramanayake, Eric Dinerstein, John Seidensticker, Susan Lumpkin et al.
Abstract In an unprecedented response to the rapid decline in wild tiger populations, the Heads of Government of the 13 tiger range countries endorsed the St. Petersburg Declaration in November 2010, pledging to double the wild tiger population. We conducted a landscape analysis of tiger habitat to ...