Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation.

By M. Kuussaari, R. Bommarco, Risto Heikkinen, A. Helm, Jochen Krauss, R. Lindborg, Erik Ockinger, M. Pärtel, Joan Pino, F. Rodà and 4 more. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Which plant traits predict species loss in calcareous grasslands with extinction debt? (2012, background): “As the occurrence of extinction debt has frequently been detected in recently fragmented communities, future plant extinctions remain likely in many habitats (Kuussaari et al., 2009).”
Declining old‐forest species as a legacy of large trees lost (2018, background): “The concept of extinction debt is defined by the idea that individuals, populations or species can initially survive habitat change but later become locally extirpated or experience declines without any further habitat modification (Kuussaari et al., 2009).”
Consequences of the introduction of exotic and translocated species and future extirpations on the functional diversity of freshwater fish assemblages (2013, background): “Although only a few regional extirpations of native fish species have been reported (Watanabe, 2012), future extirpation of endangered fish species at the regional scale is considered to be a realistic scenario because extirpation of these species can occur with a substantial delay following habitat”
Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management (2016, background): “Of more concern for global fish conservation is the ‘extinction debt’ – the number or proportion of species (or populations) expected to become extinct as the fish assemblage reaches a new equilibrium following environmental disturbance (Kuussaari et al., 2009).”
Conservation biogeography of freshwater fishes: recent progress and future challenges (2010, background): “…extinction debt based on long-term data on species occurrence or to estimate debt by comparing past versus present habitat characteristics, present-day stable versus unstable landscapes or using modelling approaches such as population viability analysis (Brook et al., 2000; Kuussaari et al., 2009).”
Human influence lowers plant genetic diversity in communities with extinction debt (2009, background): “Only habitat specialist species were included in the estimates of species richness, since these species are expected to be most sensitive to habitat changes (Kuussaari et al. 2009).”
Impact of landscape alteration and invasions on pollinators: a meta‐analysis (2012, background): “Pollinators might change their foraging behaviour quickly, just after the introduction of the alien species, but the effects on pollinator populations might have a lag-time before being detected (Kuussaari et al. 2009).”
Multi-level functional responses for wildlife conservation: the case of threatened caribou in managed boreal forests (2012, background): “Moreover, the reason why these species become threatened in the first place is often linked to habitat loss (Kuussaari et al. 2009), and a decrease in the availability of certain types of habitat patches can also increase their selection by changing the cost-benefit trade-offs of using those…”
Ecological theory provides strong support for habitat restoration (2017, background): “…parameters, whether testing the relationship between current diversity parameters and past habitat configuration or environmental conditions (Kuussaari et al., 2009) or by using themeasurements of abundance distributions and species spatial patterns in communities (Kitzes and Harte, 2015).”
Indirect evidence for an extinction debt of grassland butterflies half century after habitat loss (2010, background): “The fact that current area affects species richness of specialist butterflies, but not of plants, supports the theoretical prediction that the response of long-living organisms (vascular plants) to habitat loss is slower than in short-living organisms (Kuussaari et al., 2009).”