Improvements to the Red List Index
Stuart H.M. Butchart, H. Resit Akçakaya, Janice Chanson et al. · 2007
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Stuart H. M. Butchart, H. Resit Akçakaya, Janice Chanson, and colleagues published this conservation paper in PLOS ONE in 2007. It proposes improvements to the Red List Index. The index is built from the IUCN Red List and tracks how extinction risk changes over time for whole groups of species.
Governments use the index to judge whether conservation is working. The authors address weaknesses in how the index is calculated and sampled. A more reliable index means policy makers can tell real progress from noise. Scarce conservation money can then go where the trend data says it counts.
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| CREATOR | Stuart H.M. Butchart, H. Resit Akçakaya, Janice Chanson et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000140