More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
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Date de publication:
02 Jan 2024
02 Jan 2024
Historique:
received:
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06
2023
accepted:
08
12
2023
medline:
4
1
2024
pubmed:
4
1
2024
entrez:
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1
2024
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epublish
Résumé
Trees are pivotal to global biodiversity and nature's contributions to people, yet accelerating global changes threaten global tree diversity, making accurate species extinction risk assessments necessary. To identify species that require expert-based re-evaluation, we assess exposure to change in six anthropogenic threats over the last two decades for 32,090 tree species. We estimated that over half (54.2%) of the assessed species have been exposed to increasing threats. Only 8.7% of these species are considered threatened by the IUCN Red List, whereas they include more than half of the Data Deficient species (57.8%). These findings suggest a substantial underestimation of threats and associated extinction risk for tree species in current assessments. We also map hotspots of tree species exposed to rapidly changing threats around the world. Our data-driven approach can strengthen the efforts going into expert-based IUCN Red List assessments by facilitating prioritization among species for re-evaluation, allowing for more efficient conservation efforts.
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pubmed: 38167693
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-44321-9
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-44321-9
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eng
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Organisme : Agence Nationale de la Recherche (French National Research Agency)
ID : ANR-21-CE32-0003
Organisme : NSF | National Science Board (NSB)
ID : 2225076
Organisme : NSF | National Science Board (NSB)
ID : 2225078
Organisme : NSF | National Science Board (NSB)
ID : 2225076
Organisme : Danmarks Grundforskningsfond (Danish National Research Foundation)
ID : DNRF173
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