The EDGE2 protocol: Advancing the prioritisation of Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species for practical conservation action.

Autor: Gumbs R; Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom.; Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom.; IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force, London, United Kingdom.; Science and Solutions for a Changing Planet DTP, Grantham Institute, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom., Gray CL; Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom., Böhm M; Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom.; Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis Zoological Society, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America., Burfield IJ; BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Cambridge, United Kingdom., Couchman OR; Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom., Faith DP; School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia., Forest F; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, United Kingdom., Hoffmann M; Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom., Isaac NJB; UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, United Kingdom., Jetz W; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.; Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America., Mace GM; Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom., Mooers AO; Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada., Safi K; Max-Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Migration, Radolfzell, Germany.; University of Konstanz, Department of Biology, Konstanz, Germany., Scott O; School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom., Steel M; Biomathematics Research Centre, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand., Tucker CM; Environment, Ecology and Energy Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America., Pearse WD; Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom.; Department of Biology and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, United States of America., Owen NR; Conservation and Policy, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom.; IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force, London, United Kingdom.; On the EDGE Conservation, London, United Kingdom., Rosindell J; Department of Life Sciences, Silwood Park Campus, Imperial College London, Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PLoS biology [PLoS Biol] 2023 Feb 28; Vol. 21 (2), pp. e3001991. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Feb 28 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001991
Abstrakt: The conservation of evolutionary history has been linked to increased benefits for humanity and can be captured by phylogenetic diversity (PD). The Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) metric has, since 2007, been used to prioritise threatened species for practical conservation that embody large amounts of evolutionary history. While there have been important research advances since 2007, they have not been adopted in practice because of a lack of consensus in the conservation community. Here, building from an interdisciplinary workshop to update the existing EDGE approach, we present an "EDGE2" protocol that draws on a decade of research and innovation to develop an improved, consistent methodology for prioritising species conservation efforts. Key advances include methods for dealing with uncertainty and accounting for the extinction risk of closely related species. We describe EDGE2 in terms of distinct components to facilitate future revisions to its constituent parts without needing to reconsider the whole. We illustrate EDGE2 by applying it to the world's mammals. As we approach a crossroads for global biodiversity policy, this Consensus View shows how collaboration between academic and applied conservation biologists can guide effective and practical priority-setting to conserve biodiversity.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Gumbs et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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