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Education as a tool for addressing the extinction crisis: Moving students from understanding to action
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2010)
Education as a tool for addressing the extinction crisis: Moving students from understanding to action
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica., 2010)
Human activity is leading to mass species extinctions worldwide. Conservation biology (CB) courses,
taught worldwide at universities, typically focus on the proximal causes of extinction without teaching students
how ...
Bushmeat hunting and extinction risk to the world’s mammals
(2016-10-19)
Terrestrial mammals are experiencing a massive collapse in their population sizes and geographical ranges around the world, but many of the drivers, patterns and consequences of this decline remain poorly understood. Here ...
Ranking threats using species distribution models in the IUCN Red List assessment process
(Springer, 2011-11)
Within the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, species distribution models (SDM) are used with two main purposes: (1) to estimate extents of occurrence as a parameter of risk of extinction and, ...