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

JP Rodríguez; DA Keith; KM Rodríguez-Clark; NJ Murray; E Nicholson; TJ Regan; RM Miller; EG Barrow; LM Bland; K Boe; TM Brooks; MA Oliveira-Miranda; M Spalding; P Wit

Journal article

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

JP Rodríguez, DA Keith, KM Rodríguez-Clark, NJ Murray, E Nicholson, TJ Regan, RM Miller, EG Barrow, LM Bland, K Boe, TM Brooks, MA Oliveira-Miranda, M Spalding, P Wit

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | ROYAL SOC | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0003

Abstract

The newly developed IUCNRed 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 and criteria provide a technical base for assessments of ecosystem status at the regional, national, or subnational level.While theRed List of Ecosystemscriteria were designed to bewidelyapplicable byscientists and practitioners, guidelines are needed to ensure they are implemented in a standardized manne..

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Funding Acknowledgements

Hundreds of experts have participated since 2008 in the development and testing of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems Categories and Criteria. To all we are most indebted. We are grateful to the MAVA Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Australian Research Council (ARC linkage grant LP130100435) for their support.