Indicators to monitor the status of the tree of life.

Autor: Gumbs R; EDGE of Existence Programme, Zoological Society of London, London, UK.; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK.; IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force, London, UK., Chaudhary A; Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Kanpur, India., Daru BH; Department of Life Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA.; Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA., Faith DP; The Australian Museum Research Institute, The Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia., Forest F; Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK., Gray CL; EDGE of Existence Programme, Zoological Society of London, London, UK., Kowalska A; On the EDGE Conservation, Chelsea, UK., Lee WS; Environmental Assessment Group, Korea Environment Institute, Sejong, Republic of Korea., Pellens R; Institut de Systématique, Evolution, et Biodiversité (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne Université, Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Université des Antilles), Paris, France., Pipins S; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK.; Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK., Pollock LJ; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada., Rosindell J; Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, UK., Scherson RA; Departamento de Silvicultura y Conservación de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile., Owen NR; IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force, London, UK.; On the EDGE Conservation, Chelsea, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology [Conserv Biol] 2023 Dec; Vol. 37 (6), pp. e14138. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 08.
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14138
Abstrakt: Following the failure to fully achieve any of the 20 Aichi biodiversity targets, the future of biodiversity rests in the balance. The Convention on Biological Diversity's Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) presents the opportunity to preserve nature's contributions to people (NCPs) for current and future generations by conserving biodiversity and averting extinctions. There is a need to safeguard the tree of life-the unique and shared evolutionary history of life on Earth-to maintain the benefits it bestows into the future. Two indicators have been adopted within the GBF to monitor progress toward safeguarding the tree of life: the phylogenetic diversity (PD) indicator and the evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered (EDGE) index. We applied both to the world's mammals, birds, and cycads to show their utility at the global and national scale. The PD indicator can be used to monitor the overall conservation status of large parts of the evolutionary tree of life, a measure of biodiversity's capacity to maintain NCPs for future generations. The EDGE index is used to monitor the performance of efforts to conserve the most distinctive species. The risk to PD of birds, cycads, and mammals increased, and mammals exhibited the greatest relative increase in threatened PD over time. These trends appeared robust to the choice of extinction risk weighting. EDGE species had predominantly worsening extinction risk. A greater proportion of EDGE mammals (12%) had increased extinction risk compared with threatened mammals in general (7%). By strengthening commitments to safeguarding the tree of life, biodiversity loss can be reduced and thus nature's capacity to provide benefits to humanity now and in the future can be preserved.
(© 2023 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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