Predicting extinction risk in declining species

By Andy Purvis, J. L. Gittleman, G. Cowlishaw, Georgina M. Mace. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Social Psychology

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Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation (2005, background): “By using comparative analyses that control for phylogenetically correlated suites of traits, it should be possible to elucidate more clearly the roles of individual traits (e.g. Owens & Bennett, 2000; Purvis et al., 2000b).”
Small fish, big fish, red fish, blue fish: size-biased extinction risk of the world's freshwater and marine fishes. (2007, background): “In the light of these concerns, a paramount challenge for conservation biology is to identify and protect those species facing the greatest risk of extinction ( Purvis et al. , 2000 ).”
A Meta-Analysis of Human–Wildlife Conflict: South African and Global Perspectives (2016, background): “These include: (1) reduction or severe fragmentation in its geographic range; (2) small, declining or low density population; (3) low reproductive rate; (4) large home range requirements; (5) reduced genetic variability; (6) special niche requirements; and (7) harvested by people for trophies, bush ”
What are the best correlates of predicted extinction risk (2004, background): “There is considerable evidence for an inverse association between population size and extinction risk (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967; Terborgh and Winter, 1980; Diamond, 1984; Goodman, 1987; Pimm et al., 1988; Berger, 1990; Newmark, 1994, 1996; Mace and Kershaw, 1997; McKinney, 1997; Belovsky et al., 1”
Primate responses to anthropogenic habitat disturbance: A pantropical meta-analysis (2017, result): “Frugivores were most sensitive to forest degradation, corroborating previous findings (Purvis et al., 2000).”
Sociality in New World hystricognath rodents is linked to predators and burrow digging (2006, positive): “Following others (e.g., Purvis et al., 2000; Stuart-Fox and Ord, 2004), we calculated contrasts for dichotomous variables, in our case whether the species was diurnal or nocturnal and whether the species burrowed or not.”
Specialist species of wood‐inhabiting fungi struggle while generalists thrive in fragmented boreal forests (2013, background): “Extinction vulnerability is generally associated with high trophic level, low population density, slow life history and small geographic range (Purvis et al. 2000; Thomas, Lanctot & Szekely 2006; Waldron et al. 2006; Cardillo et al. 2008; Fritz, Bininda-Emonds & Purvis 2009).”
Rarity in the tropics: biogeography and macroecology of the primates (2006, background): “The biological traits investigated are those that have already been demonstrated to correlate with actual or projected extinction risk in primates, or which could sensibly be expected to do so (Johns & Skorupa, 1987; Harcourt, 1998, 2002; Purvis et al., 2000; Harcourt & Schwartz, 2001; Isaac & Cowli”
Analysis of factors implicated in the recent decline of Australia's mammal fauna (2007, background): “…fecundity, greater longevity, and lower population density (Brown, 1995), all of which have been implicated in pre-disposing mammalian species to extinction (Damuth, 1981; Gaston & Blackburn, 1995; Smith & Quin, 1996; McKinney, 1997; Purvis et al., 2000; Cardillo & Bromham, 2001; Johnson, 2002).”