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Extinction risk

Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions

Diane Carmeliza N. Cuaresma, Hiromu Ito, Hiroaki Arima, Jin Yoshimura, Satoru Morita, Takuya Okabe

published 30 Apr 2025

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Abalones at risk: A global Red List assessment of Haliotis in a changing climate

Howard Peters, Gina M. Ralph, Laura Rogers-Bennett

published 23 Dec 2024

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Half of Atlantic reef-building corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats

Luis Gutierrez, Beth Polidoro, David Obura, Francoise Cabada-Blanco, Christi Linardich, Emma Pettersson, Paul Pearce-Kelly, Krista Kemppinen, Juan Jose Alvarado, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip, Anastazia Banaszak, Pilar Casado de Amezua, James Crabbe, Aldo Croquer, Joshua Feingold, Elizabeth Goergen, Stefano Goffredo, Bert Hoeksema, Danwei Huang, Emma Kennedy, Diego Kersting, Marcelo Kitahara, Petar Kružić, Margaret Miller, Flavia Nunes, Juan Pablo Quimbayo, Andrea Rivera-Sosa, Rosa Rodríguez-Martínez, Nadia Santodomingo, Michael Sweet, Mark Vermeij, Estrella Villamizar, Greta Aeby, Khatija Alliji, Daniel Bayley, Elena Couce, Benjamin Cowburn, C. Isabel Nuñez Lendo, Sean Porter, Kaveh Samimi-Namin, Tom Shlesinger, Bryan Wilson

published 15 Nov 2024

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Habitat remediation followed by managed connectivity reduces unwanted changes in evolutionary trajectory of high extirpation risk populations

Gina F. Lamka, Janna R. Willoughby

published 30 May 2024

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An integrated system to assess marine extinctions

Arturo Yáñez-Arenas, Miguel Nakamura, Andrew W. Trites, Héctor Reyes-Bonilla, Claudia Janetl Hernández-Camacho, Felipe Galván-Magaña, Jost Borcherding, Pablo del Monte-Luna

published 26 Oct 2023

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Demographic and life history traits explain patterns in species vulnerability to extinction

Haydée Hernández-Yáñez, Su Yeon Kim, Judy P. Che-Castaldo

published 23 Feb 2022

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Selfish risk-seeking can provide an evolutionary advantage in a conditional public goods game

Martina Testori, Hedwig Eisenbarth, Rebecca B. Hoyle

published 21 Jan 2022

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Assessing recovery of spectacled eiders using a Bayesian decision analysis

Kylee D. Dunham, Erik E. Osnas, Charles J. Frost, Julian B. Fischer, James B. Grand

published 01 Jul 2021

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Modelling parameter uncertainty reveals bushmeat yields versus survival trade-offs in heavily-hunted duiker Cephalophus spp.

Tatsiana Barychka, Drew W. Purves, E. J. Milner-Gulland, Georgina M. Mace

published 28 Sep 2020

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Implications of the prevalence and magnitude of sustained declines for determining a minimum threshold for favourable population size

Rhys E. Green, Gillian Gilbert, Jeremy D. Wilson, Kate Jennings

published 12 Feb 2020

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Tracking extinction risk trends and patterns in a mega-diverse country: A Red List Index for birds in Colombia

Luis Miguel Renjifo, Angela María Amaya-Villarreal, Stuart H. M. Butchart

published 27 Jan 2020

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Inbreeding, Allee effects and stochasticity might be sufficient to account for Neanderthal extinction

Krist Vaesen, Fulco Scherjon, Lia Hemerik, Alexander Verpoorte

published 27 Nov 2019

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Raising the bar: Recovery ambition for species at risk in Canada and the US

Kylee A. Pawluk, Caroline H. Fox, Christina N. Service, Eva H. Stredulinsky, Heather M. Bryan

published 19 Nov 2019

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