sRedList Website: https://sredlist.eu

Virtual meeting: 22.-25.03.2021

PIs:
Luca Santini
Moreno Di Marco

iDiv member:
Carsten Meyer

Working Group Postdoc:
Victor Cazalis

Project summary:
The extinction risk of species is globally monitored by the IUCN Red List (RL). Despite the goal to update extinction risk assessments at least every 10 years, over 21,000  species (ca. 18% of those assessed) currently have outdated assessments. The resources needed to keep assessments up to date present a clear sustainability challenge. Furthermore, even a 10-year reassessment interval is too long to allow timely conservation interventions in many cases, and the application of RL criteria often suffer from inconsistencies across different groups. Several authors have proposed automated methods to conduct preliminary screenings to guide reassessment of species, considering species intrinsic vulnerability (inferred from their traits and other factors), historical trends, and satellite-derived imagery combined with macroecological modelling. So far, however, these approaches have remained largely academic exercises, and have rarely been incorporated in the official RL reassessment routines.
By bringing together RL practitioners and ecological modellers, we aim to develop an innovative, rapid and consistent framework for prioritizing RL assessments. We will build on recent approaches to derive input data for the RL assessment process, for example inferring population decline from satellite-borne estimates of habitat loss. We will automatize the identification of species likely to have changed their RL status. These species would be prioritised for re-assessment, to verify the validity of our predictions and update their extinction risk as appropriate. Prioritizing the reassessment of species will reduce assessors’ workload and deliver faster information for more rapid and effective conservation actions.

Participants:
Luca Santini (National Research Council, Italy), Moreno Di Marco (Sapienza University, Italy), Carsten Meyer (iDiv, Germany), Alexander Zizka (iDiv, Germany), Ana Benitez-Lopez (Doñana Biological Station, Spain), Aafke Schipper (Radboud University, The Netherlands), Bruce Young (NtureServe, US), Carlo Rondinini (Sapienza University, Italy), Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez (Reading University, UK), Nathalie Pettorelli (Zoological Society of London, UK), Resit H. Akcakaya (Stony Brook University, US), Samantha Hill (UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK), Stuart Butchart (Birdlife International, UK), Theresa Joerger-Hickfang (iDiv, Germany), Thomas Brooks (IUCN, Switzerland).

Meeting report

First meeting: 14.-16.03.2022

In person participants:
Luca Santini (National Research Council, Italy), Moreno Di Marco (Sapienza University, Italy), Victor Cazalis (iDiv), Carsten Meyer (iDiv, Germany), Steven Bachman (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Ana Benitez-Lopez (Doñana Biological Station, Spain), Pedro Cardoso (University of Helsinki), Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez (Reading University, UK), Samantha Hill (UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK), Etienne Henry (iDiv), Martin Jung (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)), Pablo Lucas (Sapienza University, Italy), Giordano Mancini (Sapienca University, Italy), Carsten Meyer (iDiv); Guillaume Patoine (iDiv), Aafke Schipper (Radboud University, The Netherlands), Bruce Young (NatureServe, US), Piero Visconti (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)), Bruce Young (NatureServe); Alexander Zizka (iDiv, Germany)

Remote participants:
Resit H. Akcakaya (Stony Brook University, US), Monika Bohm (Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis Zoo), Thomas Brooks (IUCN, Switzerland), Stu Butchart (BirdLife International), Viola Clausnitzer (Senkenberg), Michela Pacifi (Sapienza University, Italy), Nathalie Pettorelli (Zoological Society of London, UK), Carlo Rondinini (Sapienza University, Italy)

Meeting report

Second meeting: 14.-17.03.2023

On-site particiants
Steven  Bachman (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Ana Benítez López (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales), Thomas Brooks (IUCN), Pedro Cardoso (University of Helsinki), Victor Cazalis (Conservara), Viola Clausnitzer (Senckenberg Research Institute), Moreno Di Marco (Sapienza University of Rome), Manuela Gonzalez Suarez (University of Reading), Michael Hoffmann (Zoological Society of London), Pablo Miguel Lucas (Sapienza University of Rome), Giordano Mancini (Sapienza University of Rome), Guillaume Patoine (iDiv), Luca Santini (Sapienza University), Alexander Zizka (Philipps-University Marburg), Aafke Schipper (Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences), Jelle Hilbers (Radboud University), Carsten Meyer (iDiv), Craig Hilton-Taylor (IUCN)

Remote participants
Resit Akcakaya, Monika Bohm (Global Center for Species Survival, Indianapolis Zoo), Samantha Hill (UNEP-WCMC), Martin Jung (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Michela Pacifici (Sapienza University of Rome), Bruce Young (NatureServe), Stu Butchart (BirdLife International)

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