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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Reducing threats to species: Threat reversibility and links to industry
Conservation Letters, Volume 3, No. 4, Year 2010
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Description
Threats to species' persistence are typically mitigated via lengthy and costly recovery planning processes that are implemented only after species are at risk of extinction. To reduce overall threats and minimize risks to species not yet imperiled, a proactive and broad-scale framework is needed. Using data on threats to imperiled species in Canada to illustrate our approach, we link threats to industries causing the harm, thus providing regulators with quantitative data that can be used directly in cost-benefit and risk analyses to broadly reduce threat levels. We then show how ranking the ease of threat abatement and reversal assists prioritization by identifying threats that are easiest to mitigate as well as threats that are possible to abate but nearly impossible to reverse. This new framework increases the usefulness of widely available threat data for preventative conservation and species recovery. ©2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Prugh, Laura R.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Sinclair, Anthony R.E.
Canada, Vancouver
The University of British Columbia
Hodges, Karen E.
Canada, Kelowna
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Jacob, Aerin L.
Canada, Montreal
Université Mcgill
Wilcove, David S.
United States, Princeton
Princeton University
Statistics
Citations: 35
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00111.x
ISSN:
1755263X
Study Approach
Quantitative