An assessment of the conservation status of Restrepia (Orchidaceae) reveals the threatened status of the genus

AbstractThe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species uses geographical distribution as a key criterion in assessing the conservation status of species. Accurate knowledge of a species’ distribution is therefore essential to ensure the correct categorization is applied. Here we compare the geographical distribution of 35 species of chameleons endemic to East Africa, using data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and data compiled by a taxonomic expert. Data screening showed 99.9% of GBIF records used outdated taxonomy and 20% had no locality coordinates. Conversely the expert dataset used 100% up-to-date taxonomy and only seven records (3%) had no coordinates. Both datasets were used to generate range maps for each species, which were then used in preliminary Red List categorization. There was disparity in the categories of 10 species, with eight being assigned a lower threat category based on GBIF data compared with expert data, and the other two assigned a higher category. Our results suggest that before conducting desktop assessments of the threatened status of species, aggregated museum locality data should be vetted against current taxonomy and localities should be verified. We conclude that available online databases are not an adequate substitute for taxonomic experts in assessing the threatened status of species and that Red List assessments may be compromised unless this extra step of verification is carried out.

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Why IUCN Should Replace “Data Deficient” Conservation Status with a Precautionary “Assume Threatened” Status—A Cetacean Case Study

Frontiers in Marine Science ◽

10.3389/fmars.2016.00193 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

E. C. M. Parsons

Keyword(s):

Conservation Status ◽

Data Deficient ◽

Threatened Status

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Reassessment of the threatened status of IUCN red listed Indian river shad Gudusia chapra (Hamilton, 1822) from Bangladesh

Dhaka University Journal of Biological Sciences ◽

10.3329/dujbs.v28i1.46495 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 83-91

Author(s):

Gouri Mondal ◽

Samapti Saha ◽

Md Monirul Islam ◽

Goutam Kumar Kundu ◽

Bijoya Paul ◽

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Keyword(s):

Conservation Status ◽

Iucn Red List ◽

Red List ◽

Current Status ◽

Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽

Subsistence Fisheries ◽

Indian River ◽

Iucn Assessment ◽

Threatened Status ◽

Lake Habitats

The Indian river shad, Gudusia chapra, locally known as chapila fish is rich in nutritive values and important to artisanal and subsistence fisheries in Bangladesh. The conservation status of this species is of particular interest due to its recent decline in rivers. To assess the current status of this species in Bangladesh, we recorded its abundance at seven sites in the Padma, the Meghna and the Tetulia rivers during pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon seasons. In this study, G. chapra was consistently recorded in the study area and there was no significant temporal or spatial variation in its abundance. The observed mean length and weight of the species were similar to those recorded in earlier studies. Currently, G. chapra is listed as vulnerable species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in Bangladesh. Although the primary known habitat of this species is river, IUCN assessment was based on production from beel and Kaptai Lake habitats. In this study, consistent occurrence and availability of the species across spatial and temporal scales in rivers suggest the necessity to reassess the conservation status of G. chapra in the country. Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci. 28(1): 83-91, 2019 (January)

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Estimating conservation metrics from atlas data: the case of southern African endemic birds

Bird Conservation International ◽

10.1017/s0959270916000307 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 323-336 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

ALAN T. K. LEE ◽

RES ALTWEGG ◽

PHOEBE BARNARD

Keyword(s):

Citizen Science ◽

Large Scale ◽

Population Change ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Bird Species ◽

Science Data ◽

Atlas Data ◽

Endemic Birds ◽

Change Metrics ◽

Threatened Status

SummaryThe robust assessment of conservation status increasingly requires population metrics for species that may be little-researched, with no prospect of immediate improvement, but for which citizen science atlas data may exist. We explore the potential for bird atlas data to generate population metrics of use in red data assessment, using the endemic and near-endemic birds of southern Africa. This region, defined here as South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, is home to a large number of endemic bird species and an active atlas project. The Southern African Bird Atlas Projects (SABAP) 1 and 2 are large-scale citizen science data sets, consisting of hundreds of thousands of bird checklists and > 10 million bird occurrence records on a grid across the subcontinent. These data contain detailed information on species’ distributions and population change. For conservationists, metrics that guide decisions on the conservation status of a species for red listing can be obtained from SABAP, including range size, range change, population change, and range connectivity (fragmentation). We present a range of conservation metrics for these bird species, focusing on population change metrics together with an associated statistical confidence metric. Population change metrics correlate with change metrics calculated from dynamic occupancy modelling for a set of 191 common species. We identify four species with neither international nor local threatened status, yet for which bird atlas data suggest alarming declines, and two species with threatened status for which our metrics suggest could be reconsidered. A standardised approach to deciding the conservation status of a species is useful so that charismatic or flagship species do not receive disproportionate attention, although ultimately conservation status of any species must always be a consultative process.

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The Conservation of European Goldfinch in North Algeria

10.5772/intechopen.97236 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bara Mouslim

Keyword(s):

North Africa ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Management Plan ◽

Systematic Sampling ◽

Human Pressure ◽

Selective Pressures ◽

In Captivity ◽

Carduelis Carduelis ◽

North Algeria ◽

Threatened Status

This chapter presents the conservation status and threat of the European goldfinch Carduelis carduelis in Algeria. Many selective pressures run into this passerine, mainly human pressure due to keeping and hatching the birds in captivity. Illegal trading is actively carried out between countries of North Africa (mainly the pathway Morocco – Algeria – Tunisia). This situation is clearly expounding a threatened status of this songbird. A scientific survey was done in north center of Algeria to assess the captivity rate of goldfinch. Systematic sampling was done in several houses of Bouira district. Goldfinch breeder’s age varies between 20 and 40 years. No income and no fixed job are the main reasons for these breeders. Results exposed serious threat of this species in center of Algeria. Management plan and conservation directions have been proposed for this species.

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Conservation Status of Medicinal Plants from Papua and West Papua Province (Indonesia)

Media Konservasi ◽

10.29244/medkon.24.2.114-123 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 114-123

Author(s):

Anshary Maruzy ◽

Rohmat Mujahid

Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Traditional Healer ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Red List ◽

Species Level ◽

Primary Data ◽

West Papua ◽

Data Deficient ◽

Threatened Status ◽

Near Threatened

Research on Medicinal Plants and Jamu (RISTOJA) in of Papua and West Papua provinces was conducted in November-December 2012 and May 2017 using the purposive sampling and snowball method. The purpose of the review in this paper is to find out the patterns and trends in species used, and to discuss the factors that cause the vulnerability of declining plant species due to harvest pressure. In this paper, RISTOJA’s data is primary data and a review of the data is carried out by searching literature online and offline. From the results of RISTOJA in Papua and West Papua (Western New Guinea) in 2012 and 2017, there were 2929 numbers of medicinal plants, and it is estimated that from the 2929 numbers there were 983 species of medicinal plants, and from the estimated 983 species of medicinal plants there were 444 species of medicinal plants not yet identified, because most species do not have generative parts and there are 529 medicinal plants identified to species level (2.1% of the total flora of Papua and West Papua). From these data, one species of medicinal plants was included in the category of Critically Endangered (0.19%), two species of Endangered (0.38%), and four species of Vulnerable (0.76%), two species Near Threatened (0.38%), 61 species of Least Concern (11.53%), six species of Data Deficient (DD). Threatened status is more commonly found in species recorded as harvested by traditional healer not from gardens (forests and others). Thus, the continuous exploitation of harvests from the forest and the wildlife can lead to an increase in the future Red List status of some species which are at risk threatened condition. Keywords: IUCN, medicinal plants, Papua, RISTOJA, Western Papua

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The distribution and conservation status of the Bearded Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis

Bird Conservation International ◽

10.1017/s0959270900001106 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 5 (2-3) ◽

pp. 367-390 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

N. J. Collar ◽

D. C. Wege

Keyword(s):

Clutch Size ◽

French Guiana ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Austral Summer ◽

Southern Brazil ◽

Northern Brazil ◽

Central Eastern ◽

Grassland Habitats ◽

Threatened Status ◽

Near Threatened

SummaryThe Bearded Tachuri Polystictus pectoralis occupies lowland grasslands with scrubby vegetation, generally near water, in the Andean grasslands of Colombia at two sites (threatened race bogotensis), savannas in eastern Colombia and the lowland and tepui grasslands of mainly southern Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana and northern Brazil (race brevipennis), reappearing south of the Amazon in central-southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia (no recent records), Paraguay, Uruguay and northern and central-eastern Argentina (nominate pectoralis). It is an austral summer visitor (October/November to February/April) to central-east Argentina, nesting (commonly in thistles) around December, clutch-size three. It feeds on insects by perch-gleaning, sallying, hover-gleaning and still-hunting. It is unobtrusive and must be commonly overlooked, and in some localities may be moderately well represented. Overall, however, it is scarce and appears to be very patchy in occurrence; grassland habitats within its range have been converted wholesale to farming. New quantitative criteria support earlier qualitative judgement that the species is probably not (yet) threatened, but that it merits near-threatened status. Suggestions that one or all of its three subspecies may be good species are premature; it is not even clear how distinct these forms are as subspecies.

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Conservation status of the gelada

Theropithecus ◽

10.1017/cbo9780511565540.022 ◽

1993 ◽

pp. 527-532

Keyword(s):

Conservation Status

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First records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Muong Phang cultural and historical site, Dien Bien province, Northwestern Vietnam

TAP CHI SINH HOC ◽

10.15625/0866-7160/v39n3.10641 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 296-302

Author(s):

Dao Nhan Loi ◽

Vu Dinh Thong

Keyword(s):

Conservation Status ◽

Forest Area ◽

Sound Recordings ◽

The Public ◽

The Family ◽

Biological Taxa

The internationally renowned Muong Phang Cultural and Historical Site is located in the Dien Bien Phu region, northwestern Vietnam, and has received special attention from the public because of its great biodiversity. This site has a large forest area and other habitats including lakes, streams, rivers and paddyfield. These habitats would be ideal homes for bats and other biological taxa. However, in general, the wildlife of the Muong Phang Cultural and Historical Site receives little attention from scientists and authorities. Between 2014 and 2016, we conducted series of surveys for bats in Muong Phang. Bat capture and sound recordings were the main procedure to obtain materials and data necessary for the assessment of diversity and conservation status. The results of the surveys this time revealed that there are 19 species of bats belonging to 7 genera, 5 families in the study area. Of these, a Myotis sp. is different from all the previously recorded Myotis bats from Vietnam, and, a Rhinolophus sp. is different from every described species of the family Rhinolophidae. This paper provides the first records of bats from Muong Phang with remarks on their taxonomy and conservation status. Citation: Dao Nhan Loi, Vu Dinh Thong, 2017. First records of bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) from Muong Phang cultural and historical site, Dien Bien province, Northwestern Vietnam. Tap chi Sinh hoc, 39(3): 296-302. DOI: 10.15625/0866-7160/v39n3.10641. *Corresponding author: [email protected]. Received 29 August 2017, accepted 10 September 2017

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A New Species of Eugenia subg. Pseudeugenia (Myrtaceae, Myrteae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Systematic Botany ◽

10.1600/036364420x15935294613518 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 537-543

Author(s):

Karinne Sampaio Valdemarin ◽

Jair Eustáquio Quintino Faria ◽

Fiorella Fernanda Mazine ◽

Vinicius Castro Souza

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Atlantic Forest ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Forest Vegetation ◽

Vegetation Types ◽

Flower Buds ◽

Diagnostic Features ◽

Closely Related Species ◽

Lowland Forests ◽

A New Species

Abstract—A new species of Eugenia from the Atlantic forest of Brazil is described and illustrated. Eugenia flavicarpa is restricted to the Floresta de Tabuleiro (lowland forests) of Espírito Santo state and is nested in Eugenia subg. Pseudeugenia. Considering all other species of the subgenus that occur in forest vegetation types of the Atlantic forest phytogeographic domain, Eugenia flavicarpa can be distinguished mainly by the combination of smooth leaves with indumentum on both surfaces, with two marginal veins, usually ramiflorous inflorescences, pedicels 4.5‐9.7 mm long, flower buds 3.5‐4 mm in diameter, and by the calyx lobes that are 2‐3 mm long with rounded to obtuse apices. Morphological analyses were performed to explore the significance of quantitative diagnostic features between the new species and the closely related species, Eugenia farneyi. Notes on the habitat, distribution, phenology, and conservation status of Eugenia flavicarpa are provided, as well as a key for all species of Eugenia subg. Pseudeugenia from forest vegetation of the Atlantic forest phytogeographic domain.

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