Guidelines for Application of Iucn Red List Criteria at Regional and National Levels

A practical guide to the application of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems criteria.

The newly developed IUCN Red List of Ecosystems is part of a growing toolbox for assessing risks to biodiversity, which addresses ecosystems and their functioning. The Red List of Ecosystems standard allows systematic assessment of all freshwater, marine, terrestrial and subterranean ecosystem types in terms of their global risk of collapse. In addition, the Red List of Ecosystems categories an...

Commentary: IUCN classifications under uncertainty

We comment on a recent article by Newton (Environ. Model. Softw. (2010), 25, 15-23), which proposed a method, based on a Bayesian belief networks, for classifying the threat status of species under the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, and compared this method to an earlier one that we had developed that is based on fuzzy logic. There are three types of differences between the results of t...

Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria

Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria

Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria