Extinction risk and threats to plants and fungi
Plants, People, Planet, 2020 Societal Impact Statement There is increasing awareness that plants and fungi, as natural solutions, can play an important role in tackling ongoing global environmental challenges.
Eimear Nic Lughadha +29 more
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Linking evolutionary potential to extinction risk: applications and future directions [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2022 Extinction-risk assessments play a major role in prioritizing conservation action at national and international levels. However, quantifying extinction risk is challenging, especially when including the full suite of adaptive responses to environmental ...
Brenna R. Forester +4 more
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Simultaneously operating threats cannot predict extinction risk
Conservation Letters, 2021 Species afflicted by multiple threats are thought to face greater extinction risk. However, it is not known whether multiple threats operate antagonistically, additively, or synergistically, or whether they vary across different taxonomic and spatial ...
Aaron C. Greenville +5 more
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The contribution of historical processes to contemporary extinction risk in placental mammals. [PDF]
Science, 2023 Species persistence can be influenced by the amount, type, and distribution of diversity across the genome, suggesting a potential relationship between historical demography and resilience.
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Ecological marginalization is widespread and increases extinction risk in mammals. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance Habitat loss has led to widespread range contraction and population declines across taxa. The impact of range contraction on niche occupancy is rarely, if ever, incorporated into conservation assessments.
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Half a century of rising extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2023 Sharks and rays are vital coral reef species. This study shows that nearly two thirds (59%) of the 134 coral-reef associated species are threatened with extinction.
Sherman CS +32 more
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Climate-mediated shifts in temperature fluctuations promote extinction risk [PDF]
Nature Climate Change, 2022 Climate-mediated changes in thermal stress can destabilize animal populations and promote extinction risk. However, risk assessments often focus on changes in mean temperatures and thus ignore the role of temporal variability or structure.
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Diversity and extinction risk are inversely related at a global scale. [PDF]
Ecol Lett, 2022 Increases in biodiversity often lead to greater, and less variable, levels of ecosystem functioning. However, whether species are less likely to go extinct in more diverse ecosystems is unclear.
Weeks BC, Naeem S, Lasky JR, Tobias JA.
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Automated assessment reveals that the extinction risk of reptiles is widely underestimated across space and phylogeny. [PDF]
PLoS Biol, 2022 The Red List of Threatened Species, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is a crucial tool for conservation decision-making.
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Extinction risk predictions for the world’s flowering plants to support their conservation
bioRxiv, 2023 More than 70% of all vascular plants lack conservation status assessments. We aimed to address this shortfall in knowledge of species extinction risk by using the World Checklist of Vascular Plants to generate the first comprehensive set of predictions ...
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