Scientific Foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems
UNSW Sydney · NSW Environment and Heritage · +25 more institutions
Abstract
An understanding of risks to biodiversity is needed for planning action to slow current rates of decline and secure ecosystem services for future human use. Although the IUCN Red List criteria provide an effective assessment protocol for species, a standard global assessment of risks to higher levels of biodiversity is currently limited. In 2008, IUCN initiated development of risk assessment criteria to support a global Red List of ecosystems. We present a new conceptual model for ecosystem risk assessment founded on a synthesis of relevant ecological theories. To support the model, we review key elements of ecosystem definition and introduce the concept of ecosystem collapse, an analogue of species…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 53.77
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- 100%
- References
- 183
Authors
34- DADavid A. KeithCorresponding
UNSW Sydney, NSW Environment and Heritage
- JPJon Paul Rodrı́guez
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Provita, International Union for Conservation of Nature, EcoHealth Alliance
- KMKathryn M. Rodríguez‐Clark
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
- ENEmily Nicholson
ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, The University of Melbourne
- KAKaisu Aapala
Finnish Environment Institute
Topics & keywords
- IUCN Red List
- Biodiversity
- Ecosystem
- Environmental resource management
- Threatened species
- Ecology
- Ecosystem services
- Extinction (optical mineralogy)
- Life below water