The IUCN red list of ecosystems: motivations, challenges, and applications Keith, David A., Rodríguez, Jon Paul, Brooks, Thomas M., Burgman, Mark A., Barrow, Edmund G., Bland, Lucie, Comer, Patrick J., Franklin, Janet, Link, Jason, McCarthy, Michael A., Miller, Rebecca M., Murray, Nicholas J., Nel, Jeanne, Nicholson, Emily, Oliveira-Miranda, Maria A., Regan, Tracey J., Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M., Rouget, Mathieu and Spalding, Mark D. 2015, The IUCN red list of ecosystems: motivations, challenges, and applications, Conservation letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 214-226, doi: 10.1111/conl.12167. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads nicholson-theicunredlistof-2015.pdf Published version application/pdf 660.74KB 97 Title The IUCN red list of ecosystems: motivations, challenges, and applications Author(s) Keith, David A. Rodríguez, Jon Paul Brooks, Thomas M. Burgman, Mark A. Barrow, Edmund G. Bland, Lucie Comer, Patrick J. Franklin, Janet Link, Jason McCarthy, Michael A. Miller, Rebecca M. Murray, Nicholas J. Nel, Jeanne Nicholson, Emily orcid.org/0000-0003-2199-3446 Oliveira-Miranda, Maria A. Regan, Tracey J. Rodríguez-Clark, Kathryn M. Rouget, Mathieu Spalding, Mark D. Journal name Conservation letters Volume number 8 Issue number 3 Start page 214 End page 226 Total pages 13 Publisher Wiley Place of publication Weinheim, Germany Publication date 2015-05-01 ISSN 1755-263X Keyword(s) Conservation status Ecosystem classification Ecosystem collapse Ecosystem services IUCN Red List of Ecosystems IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Threatened ecological communities Threatened habitat types Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biodiversity Conservation Biodiversity & Conservation ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES CONSERVATION BIOLOGY SPECIES RICHNESS REGIME SHIFTS BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT TAXONOMY UNCERTAINTY PRIORITIES FRAMEWORK Summary 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 design of the IUCN criteria: generality; precision; realism; and simplicity. Drawing from extensive global consultation, we explore trade-offs among these qualities when dealing with key challenges, including ecosystem classification, measuring ecosystem dynamics, degradation and collapse, and setting decision thresholds to delimit ordinal categories of threat. Experience from countries with national lists of threatened ecosystems demonstrates well-balanced trade-offs in current and potential applications of Red Lists of Ecosystems in legislation, policy, environmental management and education. The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems should be judged by whether it achieves conservation ends and improves natural resource management, whether its limitations are outweighed by its benefits, and whether it performs better than alternative methods. Future development of the Red List of Ecosystems will benefit from the history of the Red List of Threatened Species which was trialed and adjusted iteratively over 50 years from rudimentary beginnings. We anticipate the Red List of Ecosystems will promote policy focus on conservation outcomes in situ across whole landscapes and seascapes. Language eng DOI 10.1111/conl.12167 Field of Research 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity 060202 Community Ecology (excl Invasive Species Ecology) Socio Economic Objective 960805 Flora HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2015, Wiley Free to Read? 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