Skip to search formSkip to main contentSkip to account menu

Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. The birds of the Western Palearctic: 3. Waders to gulls

View via Publisher (opens in a new tab)

Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

  • G. MaceN. Collar S. Stuart
  • Environmental Science
    Conservation biology : the journal of the Society…
  • 1 December 2008
TLDR
The process and the technical background to the IUCN Red List system is described, which was designed to measure the symptoms of extinction risk, and uses 5 independent criteria relating to aspects of population loss and decline of range size.
View on Wiley (opens in a new tab)

Birds to watch 2 : the world list of threatened birds

View via Publisher (opens in a new tab)

The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates

TLDR
Though the threat of extinction is increasing, overall declines would have been worse in the absence of conservation, and current conservation efforts remain insufficient to offset the main drivers of biodiversity loss in these groups.
View on Publisher (opens in a new tab)

Threatened birds of the Americas

Quantitative criteria for species delimitation

TLDR
This work develops quantitative methods for a classic technique in systematic zoology, namely the use of divergence between undisputed sympatric species as a yardstick for assessing the taxonomic status of allopatric forms, which can be applied to the global avifauna to deliver taxonomic decisions with a high level of objectivity, consistency and transparency.
View via Publisher (opens in a new tab)

Threatened birds of Africa and related islands

Deforestation Predicts the Number of Threatened Birds in Insular Southeast Asia

The world’s tropical forests are being cleared rapidly, and ecologists claim this is causing a massive loss of species. This claim has its critics. Can we predict extinctions from the extent of…
View on Wiley (opens in a new tab)

Threatened birds of Asia

Threatened Birds of Asia: The BirdLife International Red Data Book. Collar, N.J., (Editor-in-chief), Andreev, A.V., Chan, S., Crosby, M.J., Subramanya, S. and Tobias, J.A. Maps by Rudyanto and M. J.…

TLDR
This book provides incredibly detailed information on the 665 most threatened bird species found in Asia, plus threats, conservation action in progress and measures needed.
View on Cambridge Press (opens in a new tab)
...
By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our Privacy Policy (opens in a new tab), Terms of Service (opens in a new tab), and Dataset License (opens in a new tab)