Establishing IUCN red list criteria for threatened ecosystems Rodríguez, Jon Paul, Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M., Baillie, Jonathan E. M., Ash, Neville, Benson, John, Boucher, Timothy, Brown, Claire, Burgess, Neil D., Collen, Ben, Jennings, Michael, Keith, David A., Nicholson, Emily, Revenga, Carmen, Reyers, Belinda, Rouget, Mathieu, Smith, Tammy, Spalding, Mark, Taber, Andrew, Walpole, Matt, Zager, Irene and Zamin, Tara 2011, Establishing IUCN red list criteria for threatened ecosystems, Conservation biology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 21-29, doi: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01598.x. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Establishing IUCN red list criteria for threatened ecosystems Author(s) Rodríguez, Jon Paul Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M. Baillie, Jonathan E. M. Ash, Neville Benson, John Boucher, Timothy Brown, Claire Burgess, Neil D. Collen, Ben Jennings, Michael Keith, David A. Nicholson, Emily orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-3446 Revenga, Carmen Reyers, Belinda Rouget, Mathieu Smith, Tammy Spalding, Mark Taber, Andrew Walpole, Matt Zager, Irene Zamin, Tara Journal name Conservation biology Volume number 25 Issue number 1 Start page 21 End page 29 Total pages 9 Publisher Wiley Place of publication Chichester, Eng. Publication date 2011-02 ISSN 1523-1739 Keyword(s) biodiversity congresses as topic conservation of natural resources ecosystem endangered species extinction, biological risk assessment Summary The potential for conservation of individual species has been greatly advanced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) development of objective, repeatable, and transparent criteria for assessing extinction risk that explicitly separate risk assessment from priority setting. At the IV World Conservation Congress in 2008, the process began to develop and implement comparable global standards for ecosystems. A working group established by the IUCN has begun formulating a system of quantitative categories and criteria, analogous to those used for species, for assigning levels of threat to ecosystems at local, regional, and global levels. A final system will require definitions of ecosystems; quantification of ecosystem status; identification of the stages of degradation and loss of ecosystems; proxy measures of risk (criteria); classification thresholds for these criteria; and standardized methods for performing assessments. The system will need to reflect the degree and rate of change in an ecosystem's extent, composition, structure, and function, and have its conceptual roots in ecological theory and empirical research. On the basis of these requirements and the hypothesis that ecosystem risk is a function of the risk of its component species, we propose a set of four criteria: recent declines in distribution or ecological function, historical total loss in distribution or ecological function, small distribution combined with decline, or very small distribution. Most work has focused on terrestrial ecosystems, but comparable thresholds and criteria for freshwater and marine ecosystems are also needed. These are the first steps in an international consultation process that will lead to a unified proposal to be presented at the next World Conservation Congress in 2012. Language eng DOI 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01598.x Field of Research 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity Socio Economic Objective 960805 Flora HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2010, Society for Conservation Biology Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30073627 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 02 Jun 2015, 21:56:17 EST Wed, 03 Jun 2015, 05:02:53 EST Fri, 23 Oct 2015, 05:07:55 EST Wed, 31 Aug 2016, 14:02:39 EST Wed, 31 Aug 2016, 14:09:43 EST Wed, 31 Aug 2016, 14:10:45 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 48 times in TR Web of Science Cited 80 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 70 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 02 Jun 2015, 21:56:17 EST

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