A5080092478- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Ecology and Conservation Studies
- African Botany and Ecology Studies
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Conservation, Ecology, Wildlife Education
- Fern and Epiphyte Biology
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
2015-2024
ORCID
2023
University of Nottingham
2015-2019
Hudson Institute
2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2018
GeoCAT is an open source, browser based tool that performs rapid geospatial analysis to ease the process of Red Listing taxa. Developed utilise spatially referenced primary occurrence data, focuses on two aspects geographic range a taxon: extent (EOO) and area occupancy (AOO). These metrics form part IUCN List categories criteria have often proved challenging obtain in accurate, consistent repeatable way. Within familiar Google Maps environment, users can quickly easily combine data from...
An understanding of risks to biodiversity is needed for planning action slow current rates decline and secure ecosystem services future human use. Although the IUCN Red List criteria provide an effective assessment protocol species, a standard global higher levels currently limited. In 2008, initiated development risk support ecosystems. We present new conceptual model founded on synthesis relevant ecological theories. To model, we review key elements definition introduce concept collapse,...
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. We illustrate how understanding current projected threats to fungi necessary manage mitigate risks, while building of gaps bias assessment coverage essential adequately prioritize conservation efforts. highlight the state art science point methods future studies needed species extinction. Summary Plant fungal...
Plants provide fundamental support systems for life on Earth and are the basis all terrestrial ecosystems; a decline in plant diversity will be detrimental to other groups of organisms including humans. Decline has been hard quantify, due huge numbers known yet discovered species lack an adequate baseline assessment extinction risk against which track changes. The biodiversity many remote parts world remains poorly known, rate new assessments individual approximates at described. Thus...
The identification of species at risk extinction is a central goal conservation. As the use data compiled for IUCN Red List assessments expands, number misconceptions regarding purpose, application and categories criteria have arisen. We outline five such classes misconception; most consequential drive proposals adapted versions criteria, rendering among incomparable. A key challenge future will be to recognize point where understanding has developed so markedly that it time next generation...
Despite its recognition as an important global resource for conservation, the International Union Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List Threatened Species only provides assessments extinction risk a small and biased subset known biodiversity. A more complete can better support species-level conservation by indicating how quickly we need to act on species deemed be priorities action. Vascular plants represent one knowledge gaps, with 7% currently (including in Data Deficient Least Concern...
Summary More than 70% of all vascular plants lack conservation status assessments. We aimed to address this shortfall in knowledge species extinction risk by using the World Checklist Vascular Plants generate first comprehensive set predictions for a large clade: angiosperms (flowering plants, c. 330 000 species). used Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) predict predictors relating range size, human footprint, climate, and evolutionary history applied novel approach estimate...
Plant-diversity hotspots on a global scale are well established, but smaller local within these must be identified for effective conservation of plants at the and scales. We used distributions endemic endemic-threatened species Myrtaceae to indicate areas plant diversity importance Atlantic coastal forests (Mata Atlântica) Brazil. applied 3 simple, inexpensive geographic information system (GIS) techniques herbarium specimen database: predictive species-distribution modeling (Maxent);...
Knowledge products comprise assessments of authoritative information supported by standards, governance, quality control, data, tools, and capacity building mechanisms. Considerable resources are dedicated to developing maintaining knowledge for biodiversity conservation, they widely used inform policy advise decision makers practitioners. However, the financial cost delivering this is largely undocumented. We evaluated costs funding sources four global conservation products: The IUCN Red...
Driven by limited resources and a sense of urgency, the prioritization species for conservation has been persistent concern in science. Gymnosperms (comprising ginkgo, conifers, cycads, gnetophytes) are one most threatened groups living organisms, with 40% at high risk extinction, about twice as many recent estimates all plants (i.e. 21.4%). This proportion facing extinction highlights urgent action required to secure their future through an objective approach. The Evolutionary Distinct...
Abstract The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC) set an ambitious target to achieve a conservation assessment all known plant species by 2020. We consolidated digitally available assessments and reconciled their scientific names status predefined standards provide quantitative measure of progress toward this target. 241,919 generated represent 111,824 accepted land (vascular plants bryophytes, not algae). At least 73,081 up 90,321 have been assessed at the global scale,...
Abstract The increase in online and openly accessible biodiversity databases provides a vast invaluable resource to support research policy. However, without scrutiny, errors primary species occurrence data can lead erroneous results misleading information. Here, we introduce the Biodiversity Data Cleaning ( bdc ), an R package address quality issues improve fitness‐for‐use of datasets. brings together several aspects cleaning one place. It is organized thematic modules related different...
In International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessments, extent occurrence (EOO) is a key measure extinction risk. However, the way assessors estimate EOO from maps species' distributions inconsistent among assessments different species and major taxonomic groups. Assessors often area mapped distribution, but these exclude areas that are not habitat in idiosyncratic ways created at same spatial resolutions. We assessed impact on risk categories applying methods (minimum...
The factors causing spatial variation in species richness remain poorly known. In this study, affecting of palms (Palmae/Arecaceae) were studied along the elevational gradient New Guinea. Interpolated ranges calculated from a database all known collections for 145 32 genera. amount land area at different elevations greatly affects gradient. If assessed equal‐elevation bands appears to decline monotonically, but when equal‐area shows pronounced mid‐elevation peak, due large proportion...
ESR Endangered Species Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsSpecials 6:127-135 (2008) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00135 AS WE SEE IT Applications of IUCN Red List: towards a global barometer for plant diversity Neil Brummitt*, Steven P. Bachman, Justin Moat Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3AB, UK *Email: n.brummitt@kew.org ABSTRACT: The scale biodiversity crisis...
The IUCN Sampled Red List Index (SRLI) is a policy response by biodiversity scientists to the need estimate trends in extinction risk of world's diminishing biological diversity. Assessments plant species for SRLI project rely predominantly on herbarium specimen data from natural history collections, overwhelming absence accurate population or detailed distribution maps vast majority species. This creates difficulties re-assessing these so as measure genuine changes conservation status,...