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- Endangered Marine Species Guide - World Wildlife Fund
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world’s most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species Species are categorized from greatest extinction risk to least concern There are a range of quantitative criteria for any given ranking, including Critically Endangered and
- Climate change and birds: Perspectives and prospects from . . .
Here, in one of the first focused analyses of the correlates of climate change vulnerability in southern African birds, we offer a wide-ranging perspective on which species may be most at risk
- There Is Something Similar Among Many Species at Risk of . . .
In this new study, Hernandez-Yanez and team compiled data on growth rates, lifespans and reproduction for 159 species of herbaceous plants, trees, mammals, and birds, and crosschecked the species' most current endangered status from the IUCN Red List, the world's foremost record of threatened species
- Insular fauna | PDF - SlideShare
It is considered a global conservation priority with high rates of endemic and threatened species across taxa Key facts: - Over 7,000 islands covering diverse habitats and forming 5 centers of endemism - Rates of endemic species are 65 8% for plants, 61 1% for mammals, and over 80% for many other groups - The Philippines has over 500 bird
- New study reveals insight into which animals are most . . .
In a new study, researchers have used the fossil record to better understand what factors make animals more vulnerable to extinction from climate change The results could help to identify species most at risk today from human-driven climate change The findings have been published today in the journal Science
- Conservation status of indigenous marine species – published . . .
We report on four conservation status categories: threatened, at risk, not threatened, and data deficient Conservation status categories ‘threatened’ and ‘at risk’ are divided into subcategories that provide more information on the species’ threat of extinction classification (adapted from Townsend et al, 2008)
- Biodiversity: We can map the biggest threats to endangered . . .
Since 1993, 15 species of bird and mammal are thought to have gone extinct, including China's Yangtze river dolphin and the Pernambuco pygmy owl from Brazil But these recent examples are a tiny
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