Detecting Extinction Risk from Climate Change by IUCN Red List Criteria

Use and Misuse of the IUCN Red List Criteria in Projecting Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity

Recent attempts at projecting climate change impacts on biodiversity have used the IUCN Red List Criteria to obtain estimates of extinction rates based on projected range shifts. In these studies, the Criteria are often misapplied, potentially introducing substantial bias and uncertainty. These misapplications include arbitrary changes to temporal and spatial scales; confusion of the spatial va...

Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria

Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria

Establishing IUCN Red List Criteria for Threatened Ecosystems

The potential for conservation of individual species has been greatly advanced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) development of objective, repeatable, and transparent criteria for assessing extinction risk that explicitly separate risk assessment from priority setting. At the IV World Conservation Congress in 2008, the process began to develop and implement comparab...

Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria