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Rapid endangered species assessment : a novel approach to improve extinction risk assessments in poorly known species

Creator:

Bianchi, Carlos A.

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The number of endangered species is rapidly increasing while paucity of adequate information and resources delays establishment of conservation actions. The IUCN’s listing system is insufficient to determine conservation priorities and many species lack information even to be evaluated (i.e., “data deficient”). Here I proposed and tested the Rapid Endangered...

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5.2 The Rapid Endangered Species Assessment as a Conservation Tool
Population demography, resource use, and movement in cooperatively breeding Micronesian Kingfishers

Creator:

Kesler, Dylan C.

Abstract:

Island systems and species are susceptible to extinction because of their small population size and an ecological naiveté from an evolutionary past lacking strong competition and predation. For example, only one-fifth of the world’s bird species occur on islands, yet more than 90% of the avian extinctions witnessed during historic...

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Dissertation

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competitor species are among the major conservation issues facing insular systems. On the island of Guam