Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact.
Authors
Bennett, Elizabeth L
Brooks, Thomas M
Heath, Anna
Hedges, Simon
Hoffmann, Michael
Jenkins, Richard
Long, Barney
Mallon, David P
Meijaard, Erik
Milner-Gulland, EJ
Stuart, Simon N
Young, Richard P
Acebes, Pablo
Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna
Alvarez-Clare, Silvia
Andriantsimanarilafy, Raphali Rodlis
Arbetman, Marina
Azat, Claudio
Bacchetta, Gianluigi
Badola, Ruchi
Barcelos, Luís MD
Barreiros, Joao Pedro
Basak, Sayanti
Berger, Danielle J
Bhattacharyya, Sabuj
Bino, Gilad
Borges, Paulo AV
Boughton, Raoul K
Brockmann, H Jane
Buckley, Hannah L
Burfield, Ian J
Burton, James
Camacho-Badani, Teresa
Cano-Alonso, Luis Santiago
Carmichael, Ruth H
Carrero, Christina
Carroll, John P
Catsadorakis, Giorgos
Chapple, David G
Chapron, Guillaume
Chowdhury, Gawsia Wahidunnessa
Claassens, Louw
Cogoni, Donatella
Constantine, Rochelle
Craig, Christie Anne
Cunningham, Andrew A
Dahal, Nishma
Daltry, Jennifer C
Das, Goura Chandra
Dasgupta, Niladri
Davey, Alexandra
Davies, Katharine
Develey, Pedro
Elangovan, Vanitha
Fairclough, David
Febbraro, Mirko Di
Fenu, Giuseppe
Fernandes, Fernando Moreira
Fernandez, Eduardo Pinheiro
Finucci, Brittany
Földesi, Rita
Foley, Catherine M
Ford, Matthew
Forstner, Michael RJ
García, Néstor
Garcia-Sandoval, Ricardo
Gardner, Penny C
Garibay-Orijel, Roberto
Gatan-Balbas, Marites
Gauto, Irene
Ghazi, Mirza Ghazanfar Ullah
Godfrey, Stephanie S
Gollock, Matthew
González, Benito A
Grant, Tandora D
Gray, Thomas
Gregory, Andrew J
van Grunsven, Roy HA
Gryzenhout, Marieka
Guernsey, Noelle C
Gupta, Garima
Hagen, Christina
Hagen, Christian A
Hall, Madison B
Hallerman, Eric
Hare, Kelly
Hart, Tom
Hartdegen, Ruston
Harvey-Brown, Yvette
Hatfield, Richard
Hawke, Tahneal
Hermes, Claudia
Hitchmough, Rod
Hoffmann, Pablo Melo
Howarth, Charlie
Hudson, Michael A
Hussain, Syed Ainul
Huveneers, Charlie
Jacques, Hélène
Jorgensen, Dennis
Katdare, Suyash
Katsis, Lydia KD
Kaul, Rahul
Kaunda-Arara, Boaz
Keith-Diagne, Lucy
Kraus, Daniel T
de Lima, Thales Moreira
Lindeman, Ken
Linsky, Jean
Louis, Edward
Loy, Anna
Lughadha, Eimear Nic
Mangel, Jeffrey C
Marinari, Paul E
Martin, Gabriel M
Martinelli, Gustavo
McGowan, Philip JK
McInnes, Alistair
Teles Barbosa Mendes, Eduardo
Millard, Michael J
Mirande, Claire
Money, Daniel
Monks, Joanne M
Morales, Carolina Laura
Mumu, Nazia Naoreen
Negrao, Raquel
Nguyen, Anh Ha
Niloy, Md Nazmul Hasan
Norbury, Grant Leslie
Nordmeyer, Cale
Norris, Darren
O'Brien, Mark
Oda, Gabriela Akemi
Orsenigo, Simone
Outerbridge, Mark Evan
Pasachnik, Stesha
Pérez-Jiménez, Juan Carlos
Pike, Charlotte
Pilkington, Fred
Plumb, Glenn
Portela, Rita de Cassia Quitete
Prohaska, Ana
Quintana, Manuel G
Rakotondrasoa, Eddie Fanantenana
Ranglack, Dustin H
Rankou, Hassan
Rawat, Ajay Prakash
Reardon, James Thomas
Rheingantz, Marcelo Lopes
Richter, Stephen C
Rivers, Malin C
Rogers, Luke Rollie
da Rosa, Patrícia
Rose, Paul
Royer, Emily
Ryan, Catherine
de Mitcheson, Yvonne J Sadovy
Salmon, Lily
Salvador, Carlos Henrique
Samways, Michael J
Sanjuan, Tatiana
Souza Dos Santos, Amanda
Sasaki, Hiroshi
Schutz, Emmanuel
Scott, Heather Ann
Scott, Robert Michael
Serena, Fabrizio
Sharma, Surya P
Shuey, John A
Silva, Carlos Julio Polo
Simaika, John P
Smith, David R
Spaet, Julia LY
Sultana, Shanjida
Talukdar, Bibhab Kumar
Tatayah, Vikash
Thomas, Philip
Tringali, Angela
Trinh-Dinh, Hoang
Tuboi, Chongpi
Usmani, Aftab Alam
Vasco-Palacios, Aída M
Vié, Jean-Christophe
Virens, Jo
Walker, Alan
Wallace, Bryan
Waller, Lauren J
Wang, Hongfeng
Wearn, Oliver R
van Weerd, Merlijn
Weigmann, Simon
Willcox, Daniel
Woinarski, John
Yong, Jean WH
Young, Stuart
Publication Date
2021-12Journal Title
Conserv Biol
ISSN
0888-8892
Publisher
Wiley
Volume
35
Issue
6
Pages
1833-1849
Language
en
Type
Article
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Grace, M. K., Akçakaya, H. R., Bennett, E. L., Brooks, T. M., Heath, A., Hedges, S., Hilton-Taylor, C., et al. (2021). Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact.. Conserv Biol, 35 (6), 1833-1849. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13756
Abstract
Recognizing 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., measurement against benchmarks of species' viability, functionality, and preimpact distribution) to determine current species recovery status (herein species recovery score) and application of that method to estimate past and potential future impacts of conservation based on 4 metrics (conservation legacy, conservation dependence, conservation gain, and recovery potential). We tested the framework with 181 species representing diverse taxa, life histories, biomes, and IUCN Red List categories (extinction risk). Based on the observed distribution of species' recovery scores, we propose the following species recovery categories: fully recovered, slightly depleted, moderately depleted, largely depleted, critically depleted, extinct in the wild, and indeterminate. Fifty-nine percent of tested species were considered largely or critically depleted. Although there was a negative relationship between extinction risk and species recovery score, variation was considerable. Some species in lower risk categories were assessed as farther from recovery than those at higher risk. This emphasizes that species recovery is conceptually different from extinction risk and reinforces the utility of the IUCN Green Status of Species to more fully understand species conservation status. Although extinction risk did not predict conservation legacy, conservation dependence, or conservation gain, it was positively correlated with recovery potential. Only 1.7% of tested species were categorized as zero across all 4 of these conservation impact metrics, indicating that conservation has, or will, play a role in improving or maintaining species status for the vast majority of these species. Based on our results, we devised an updated assessment framework that introduces the option of using a dynamic baseline to assess future impacts of conservation over the short term to avoid misleading results which were generated in a small number of cases, and redefines short term as 10 years to better align with conservation planning. These changes are reflected in the IUCN Green Status of Species Standard.
Keywords
CONTRIBUTED PAPER, CONTRIBUTED PAPERS, conservation action, Green Status of species, IUCN, recovery categories, red list, acciones de conservación, categorías de recuperación, estatus verde de especies, lista roja
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cobi13756
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13756
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/331469
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