Congratulations to Ryan Almeida (PhD candidate in the Lockwood Lab) for his publication in the Journal of Applied Ecology! His paper is titled "Multiple co-occurring bioeconomic drivers of overexploitation can accelerate rare species extinction risk."
Here's how Ryan summarizes the project in his own words: "Overexploitation, the unsustainable harvest of animals from the wild, is one of the biggest threats facing global biodiversity. A major driver of overexploitation is the commercial wildlife trade, a global industry that’s worth billions of dollars annually. The global wildlife trade is vast in its scope and variable in its impact on different species; as a result, whether a traded species is threatened with extinction depends on several different ecological and socioeconomic factors, such as rarity, consumer demand, or biological traits. In this study, we looked at how these different factors associated with overexploitation can interact to affect rare species extinction risk. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found that when species are faced with several of these factors at once, they face a much higher extinction risk. These results suggest that under certain economic and ecological conditions, we may be underestimating the threat that exploitation can pose to species, especially when they are rare or economically valuable." Click here to check out his paper or access it at this link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14376 Comments are closed.
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