脊椎动物
生物
濒危物种
进化生物学
消光(光学矿物学)
分类等级
保护状况
生命之树(生物学)
动物
克莱德
系统发育树
生态学
分类单元
古生物学
栖息地
基因
生物化学
作者
Rikki Gumbs,Oenone Scott,Richard Bates,Monika Böhm,Félix Forest,Claudia L. Gray,Michael Hoffmann,Daniel Kane,Christopher M. Low,William D. Pearse,Sebastian Pipins,Benjamin Tapley,Samuel T. Turvey,Walter Jetz,Nisha Owen,James Rosindell
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-45119-z
摘要
Human-driven extinction threatens entire lineages across the Tree of Life. Here we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history, using three policy-relevant approaches. First, we calculate an index of threat to overall evolutionary history, showing that we expect to lose 86-150 billion years (11-19%) of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history over the next 50-500 years. Second, we rank jawed vertebrate species by their EDGE scores to identify the highest priorities for species-focused conservation of evolutionary history, finding that chondrichthyans, ray-finned fish and testudines rank highest of all jawed vertebrates. Third, we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate families. We found that species within monotypic families are more likely to be threatened and more likely to be in decline than other species. We provide a baseline for the status of families at risk of extinction to catalyse conservation action. This work continues a trend of highlighting neglected groups-such as testudines, crocodylians, amphibians and chondrichthyans-as conservation priorities from a phylogenetic perspective.
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