Accelerating and standardising IUCN Red List assessments with sRedList

Victor Cazalis; Moreno Di Marco; Alexander Zizka; Stuart H.M. Butchart; Manuela González-Suárez; Monika Böhm; Steven P. Bachman; Michael Hoffmann; Ilaria Rosati; Francesco De Leo; Martin Jung; Ana Benítez-López; Viola Clausnitzer; Pedro Cardoso; Thomas M. Brooks; Giordano Mancini; Pablo M. Lucas; Bruce E. Young; H. Reşit Akçakaya; Aafke M. Schipper; Craig Hilton-Taylor; Michela Pacifici; Carsten Meyer; Luca Santini

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110761

Accelerating and standardising IUCN Red List assessments with sRedList

Victor Cazalis
, Moreno Di Marco
, Alexander Zizka
, Stuart H.M. Butchart
, Manuela González-Suárez
, Monika Böhm
, Steven P. Bachman
, Michael Hoffmann
, Ilaria Rosati
, Francesco De Leo
, Martin Jung
, Ana Benítez-López
, Viola Clausnitzer
, Pedro Cardoso
, Thomas M. Brooks
, Giordano Mancini
, Pablo M. Lucas
, Bruce E. Young
, H. Reşit Akçakaya
, Aafke M. Schipper

Craig Hilton-Taylor, Michela Pacifici, Carsten Meyer, Luca Santini

Ecology and Evolution

Stony Brook University

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Leipzig University
Conservara
University of Rome La Sapienza
University of Marburg
BirdLife International
University of Cambridge
University of Reading
Indianapolis Zoo
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Zoological Society of London Institute of Zoology
National Research Council of Italy
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg
National Museum of Natural Sciences
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
University of Lisbon
University of Helsinki
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
University of the Philippines
University of Tasmania
University of Seville
NatureServe
Radboud University Nijmegen
PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
IUCN
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species underpins much decision-making in conservation and plays a key role in monitoring the status and trends of biodiversity. However, the shortage of funds and assessor capacity slows the uptake of novel data and techniques, hampering its currency, applicability, consistency and long-term viability. To help address this, we developed sRedList, a user-friendly online platform that assists Red List assessors through a step-by-step process to estimate key parameters in a standardised and reproducible fashion. Through the platform, assessors can swiftly generate outputs including species' range maps, lists of countries of occurrence, lower and upper bounds of area of occupancy, habitat preferences, trends in area of habitat, and levels of fragmentation. sRedList is compliant with the IUCN Red List guidelines and outputs are interoperable with the Species Information Service (SIS; the IUCN Red List database) in support of global, regional and national assessments and reassessments. sRedList can also help assessors prioritise species for reassessment. sRedList was released in October 2023, with a complete documentation package (including text documentation, ‘cheatsheets’, and 15 video tutorials), and will soon be highlighted in the official Red List online training course. sRedList will help to bridge the gap between extinction risk research and Red List assessment practice, increase the taxonomic coverage and consistency of assessments, and ensure the IUCN Red List is up-to-date to best support conservation policy and practice across the world.

Original language	English
Article number	110761
Journal	Biological Conservation
Volume	298
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110761
State	Published - Oct 2024

Keywords

Biodiversity conservation
Decision support
Extinction risk
GBIF
National Red List
Red List
Species range map
Web application

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Cazalis, V., Di Marco, M., Zizka, A., Butchart, S. H. M., González-Suárez, M., Böhm, M., Bachman, S. P., Hoffmann, M., Rosati, I., De Leo, F., Jung, M., Benítez-López, A., Clausnitzer, V., Cardoso, P., Brooks, T. M., Mancini, G., Lucas, P. M., Young, B. E., Akçakaya, H. R., ... Santini, L. (2024). Accelerating and standardising IUCN Red List assessments with sRedList. Biological Conservation, 298, Article 110761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110761

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