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| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 372-385 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Biological Conservation |
| Volume | 157 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
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In: Biological Conservation, Vol. 157, 2013, p. 372-385.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The conservation status of the world's reptiles
AU - Böhm, Monika
AU - Collen, Ben
AU - Baillie, Jonathan E M
AU - Bowles, Philip
AU - Chanson, Janice
AU - Cox, Neil
AU - Hammerson, Geoffrey
AU - Hoffmann, Michael
AU - Livingstone, Suzanne R.
AU - Ram, Mala
AU - Rhodin, Anders G J
AU - Stuart, Simon N.
AU - van Dijk, Peter Paul
AU - Young, Bruce E.
AU - Afuang, Leticia E.
AU - Aghasyan, Aram
AU - García, Andrés
AU - Aguilar, César
AU - Ajtic, Rastko
AU - Akarsu, Ferdi
AU - Alencar, Laura R V
AU - Allison, Allen
AU - Ananjeva, Natalia
AU - Anderson, Steve
AU - Andren, Claes
AU - Ariano-Sánchez, Daniel
AU - Arredondo, Juan Camilo
AU - Auliya, Mark
AU - Austin, Christopher C.
AU - Avci, Aziz
AU - Baker, Patrick J.
AU - Barreto-Lima, André F.
AU - Barrio-Amorós, César L.
AU - Basu, Dhruvayothi
AU - Bates, Michael F.
AU - Batistella, Alexandre
AU - Bauer, Aaron
AU - Bennett, Daniel
AU - Böhme, Wolfgang
AU - Broadley, Don
AU - Brown, Rafe
AU - Burgess, Joseph
AU - Captain, Ashok
AU - Carreira, Santiago
AU - Castañeda, Maria del Rosario
AU - Castro, Fernando
AU - Catenazzi, Alessandro
AU - Cedeño-Vázquez, José R.
AU - Chapple, David G.
AU - Cheylan, Marc
AU - Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F.
AU - Cogalniceanu, Dan
AU - Cogger, Hal
AU - Corti, Claudia
AU - Costa, Gabriel C.
AU - Couper, Patrick J.
AU - Courtney, Tony
AU - Crnobrnja-Isailovic, Jelka
AU - Crochet, Pierre André
AU - Crother, Brian
AU - Cruz, Felix
AU - Daltry, Jennifer C.
AU - Daniels, R. J Ranjit
AU - Das, Indraneil
AU - de Silva, Anslem
AU - Diesmos, Arvin C.
AU - Dirksen, Lutz
AU - Doan, Tiffany M.
AU - Dodd, C. Kenneth
AU - Dorcas, Michael E.
AU - Duarte de Barros Filho, Jose
AU - Egan, Vincent
AU - El Mouden, El Hassan
AU - Embert, Dirk
AU - Espinoza, Robert E.
AU - Fallabrino, Alejandro
AU - Feng, Xie
AU - Feng, Zhao Jun
AU - Fitzgerald, Lee
AU - Flores-Villela, Oscar
AU - França, Frederico G R
AU - Frost, Darrell
AU - Gadsden, Hector
AU - Gamble, Tony
AU - Ganesh, S. R.
AU - Garcia, Miguel
AU - García-Pérez, Juan E.
AU - Gatus, Joey
AU - Gaulke, Maren
AU - Geniez, Philippe
AU - GEORGES, Arthur
AU - Gerlach, Justin
AU - Goldberg, Stephen
AU - Gonzalez, Juan Carlos T
AU - Gower, David J.
AU - Grant, Tandora
AU - Greenbaum, Eli
AU - Grieco, Cristina
AU - Guo, Peng
AU - Hamilton, Alison M.
AU - Hare, Kelly
AU - Hedges, S. Blair
AU - Heideman, Neil
AU - Hilton-Taylor, Craig
AU - Hitchmough, Rod
AU - Hollingsworth, Bradford
AU - Hutchinson, Mark
AU - Ineich, Ivan
AU - Iverson, John
AU - Jaksic, Fabian M.
AU - Jenkins, Richard
AU - Joger, Ulrich
AU - Jose, Reizl
AU - Kaska, Yakup
AU - Kaya, U?ur
AU - Keogh, J. Scott
AU - Köhler, Gunther
AU - Kuchling, Gerald
AU - Kumluta?, Yusuf
AU - Kwet, Axel
AU - La Marca, Enrique
AU - Lamar, William
AU - Lane, Amanda
AU - Lardner, Bjorn
AU - Latta, Craig
AU - Latta, Gabrielle
AU - Lau, Michael
AU - Lavin, Pablo
AU - Lawson, Dwight
AU - LeBreton, Matthew
AU - Lehr, Edgar
AU - Limpus, Duncan
AU - Lipczynski, Nicola
AU - Lobo, Aaron S.
AU - López-Luna, Marco A.
AU - Luiselli, Luca
AU - Lukoschek, Vimoksalehi
AU - Lundberg, Mikael
AU - Lymberakis, Petros
AU - Macey, Robert
AU - Magnusson, William E.
AU - Mahler, D. Luke
AU - Malhotra, Anita
AU - Mariaux, Jean
AU - Maritz, Bryan
AU - Marques, Otavio A V
AU - Márquez, Rafael
AU - Martins, Marcio
AU - Masterson, Gavin
AU - Mateo, José A.
AU - Mathew, Rosamma
AU - Mathews, Nixon
AU - Mayer, Gregory
AU - McCranie, James R.
AU - Measey, G. John
AU - Mendoza-Quijano, Fernando
AU - Menegon, Michele
AU - Metrailler, Sebastien
AU - Milton, David A.
AU - Montgomery, Chad
AU - Morato, Sérgio A A
AU - Mott, Tami
AU - Muñoz-Alonso, Antonio
AU - Murphy, John
AU - Nguyen, Truong Q.
AU - Nilson, Göran
AU - Nogueira, Cristiano
AU - Núñez, Herman
AU - Orlov, Nikolai
AU - Ota, Hidetoshi
AU - Ottenwalder, Jose
AU - Papenfuss, Theodore
AU - Pasachnik, Stesha
AU - Passos, Paulo
AU - Pauwels, Olivier S G
AU - Pérez-Buitrago, Néstor
AU - Pérez-Mellado, Valentín
AU - Pianka, Eric R.
AU - Pleguezuelos, Juan
AU - Pollock, Caroline
AU - Ponce-Campos, Paulino
AU - Powell, Robert
AU - Pupin, Fabio
AU - Quintero Díaz, Gustavo E.
AU - Radder, Raju
AU - Ramer, Jan
AU - Rasmussen, Arne R.
AU - Raxworthy, Christopher J.
AU - Reynolds, Robert
AU - Richman, Nadia
AU - Rico, Edmund L.
AU - Riservato, Elisa
AU - Rivas, Gilson
AU - da Rocha, Pedro L B
AU - Rödel, Mark Oliver
AU - Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes
AU - Roosenburg, Willem M.
AU - Ross, James P.
AU - Sadek, Riyad
AU - Sanders, Kate
AU - Santos-Barrera, Georgina
AU - Schleich, Hermann H.
AU - Schmidt, Benedikt R.
AU - Schmitz, Andreas
AU - Sharifi, Mozafar
AU - Shea, Glenn
AU - Shi, Hai Tao
AU - Shine, Richard
AU - Sindaco, Roberto
AU - Slimani, Tahar
AU - Somaweera, Ruchira
AU - Spawls, Steve
AU - Stafford, Peter
AU - Stuebing, Rob
AU - Sweet, Sam
AU - Sy, Emerson
AU - Temple, Helen J.
AU - Tognelli, Marcelo F.
AU - Tolley, Krystal
AU - Tolson, Peter J.
AU - Tuniyev, Boris
AU - Tuniyev, Sako
AU - üzüm, Nazan
AU - van Buurt, Gerard
AU - Van Sluys, Monique
AU - Velasco, Alvaro
AU - Vences, Miguel
AU - Veselý, Milan
AU - Vinke, Sabine
AU - Vinke, Thomas
AU - Vogel, Gernot
AU - Vogrin, Milan
AU - Vogt, Richard C.
AU - Wearn, Oliver R.
AU - Werner, Yehudah L.
AU - Whiting, Martin J.
AU - Wiewandt, Thomas
AU - Wilkinson, John
AU - Wilson, Byron
AU - Wren, Sally
AU - Zamin, Tara
AU - Zhou, Kaiya
AU - Zug, George
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapid insight into the status of reptiles are needed in order to highlight urgent conservation cases and inform environmental policy with appropriate biodiversity information in a timely manner. We present the first ever global analysis of extinction risk in reptiles, based on a random representative sample of 1500 species (16% of all currently known species). To our knowledge, our results provide the first analysis of the global conservation status and distribution patterns of reptiles and the threats affecting them, highlighting conservation priorities and knowledge gaps which need to be addressed urgently to ensure the continued survival of the world’s reptiles. Nearly one in five reptilian species are threatened with extinction, with another one in five species classed as Data Deficient. The proportion of threatened reptile species is highest in freshwater environments, tropical regions and on oceanic islands, while data deficiency was highest in tropical areas, such as Central Africa and Southeast Asia, and among fossorial reptiles. Our results emphasise the need for research attention to be focussed on tropical areas which are experiencing the most dramatic rates of habitat loss, on fossorial reptiles for which there is a chronic lack of data, and on certain taxa such as snakes for which extinction risk may currently be underestimated due to lack of population information. Conservation actions specifically need to mitigate the effects of human-induced habitat loss and harvesting, which are the predominant threats to reptiles
AB - Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapid insight into the status of reptiles are needed in order to highlight urgent conservation cases and inform environmental policy with appropriate biodiversity information in a timely manner. We present the first ever global analysis of extinction risk in reptiles, based on a random representative sample of 1500 species (16% of all currently known species). To our knowledge, our results provide the first analysis of the global conservation status and distribution patterns of reptiles and the threats affecting them, highlighting conservation priorities and knowledge gaps which need to be addressed urgently to ensure the continued survival of the world’s reptiles. Nearly one in five reptilian species are threatened with extinction, with another one in five species classed as Data Deficient. The proportion of threatened reptile species is highest in freshwater environments, tropical regions and on oceanic islands, while data deficiency was highest in tropical areas, such as Central Africa and Southeast Asia, and among fossorial reptiles. Our results emphasise the need for research attention to be focussed on tropical areas which are experiencing the most dramatic rates of habitat loss, on fossorial reptiles for which there is a chronic lack of data, and on certain taxa such as snakes for which extinction risk may currently be underestimated due to lack of population information. Conservation actions specifically need to mitigate the effects of human-induced habitat loss and harvesting, which are the predominant threats to reptiles
KW - Distribution maps
KW - Extinction risk
KW - IUCN Red List
KW - Lizards
KW - Snakes
KW - Threatened species
KW - Turtles
U2 - 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.07.015
DO - 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.07.015
M3 - Article
SN - 0006-3207
VL - 157
SP - 372
EP - 385
JO - Biological Conservation
JF - Biological Conservation
ER -