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07_02_2019, Nicola Bernardo

07_02_2019, Nicola Bernardo

Subido por Carlos Ruiz Benavides, 8/02/19 10:40
"Assessing the conservation status of global terrestrial mammals through the application of a multidimensional index of species’ vulnerability to extinction" Biodiversity is currently facing the most severe crisis of the last 65 million years. During the last centuries, the exponential growth of human population and the consequent increase in resource consumption have triggered a rapid loss of biological diversity, in which the extirpation of populations and the decline in local abundance are rapidly driving species towards the brink of extinction. Understanding the conservation status of species is fundamental for an effective scheduling of future conservation actions and an efficient allocation of conservation resources. The main objective of my PhD project is the development of a new tool to quantify species’ vulnerability to extinction, a composite index assessing three different dimensions of risk: species’ intrinsic traits linked to vulnerability, the intensity of anthropogenic threats, and the amount of available information on the taxa analysed. The predictive ability of the multidimensional index of vulnerability will be tested against the IUCN classification system. Subsequently, the index will be applied to elaborate global maps of current and future vulnerability for terrestrial mammals, to assess the conservation status of some of the species missing sufficient data for the application of the IUCN criteria, and to identify any possible unrecognized conservation concerns among the studied species.
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"Assessing the conservation status of global terrestrial mammals through the application of a multidimensional index of species’ vulnerability to extinction" Biodiversity is currently facing the most severe crisis of the last 65 million years. During the last centuries, the exponential growth of human population and the consequent increase in resource consumption have triggered a rapid loss of biological diversity, in which the extirpation of populations and the decline in local abundance are rapidly driving species towards the brink of extinction. Understanding the conservation status of species is fundamental for an effective scheduling of future conservation actions and an efficient allocation of conservation resources. The main objective of my PhD project is the development of a new tool to quantify species’ vulnerability to extinction, a composite index assessing three different dimensions of risk: species’ intrinsic traits linked to vulnerability, the intensity of anthropogenic threats, and the amount of available information on the taxa analysed. The predictive ability of the multidimensional index of vulnerability will be tested against the IUCN classification system. Subsequently, the index will be applied to elaborate global maps of current and future vulnerability for terrestrial mammals, to assess the conservation status of some of the species missing sufficient data for the application of the IUCN criteria, and to identify any possible unrecognized conservation concerns among the studied species.
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