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Bird, Jeremy P., Martin, Robert, Akçakaya, H. Reşit, Gilroy, James 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-5780, Burfield, Ian J., Garnett, Stephen, Symes, Andy, Taylor, Joe, Şekercioğlu, Çağan H. and Butchart, Stuart H. M.
(2020)
Generation lengths of the world's birds and their implications for extinction risk.
Conservation Biology, 34 (5).
pp. 1252-1261.
ISSN 0888-8892
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Abstract
Birds have been comprehensively assessed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List more times than any other taxonomic group. However, to date, generation lengths have not been systematically estimated to scale population trends when undertaking assessments, as required by the criteria of the IUCN Red List. We compiled information from major databases of published life-history and trait data for all birds and imputed missing life-history data as a function of species traits with generalized linear mixed models. Generation lengths were derived for all species, based on our modeled values of age at first breeding, maximum longevity, and annual adult survival. The resulting generation lengths varied from 1.42 to 27.87 years (median 2.99). Most species (61%) had generation lengths <3.33 years, meaning that the period of 3 generations—over which population declines are assessed under criterion A—was <10 years, which is the value used for IUCN Red List assessments of species with short generation times. For these species, our trait-informed estimates of generation length suggested that 10 years is a robust precautionary value for threat assessment. In other cases, however, for whole families, genera, or individual species, generation length had a substantial impact on their estimated extinction risk, resulting in higher extinction risk in long-lived species than in short-lived species. Although our approach effectively addressed data gaps, generation lengths for some species may have been underestimated due to a paucity of life-history data. Overall, our results will strengthen future extinction-risk assessments and augment key databases of avian life-history and trait data.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | iucn red list,evaluación de especies,extinction risk,lista roja,longevidad,longevity,riesgo de extinción,species assessment,survival,valoración de especie,存活,寿命,灭绝风险,物种评估,红色名录,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,ecology,nature and landscape conservation ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2020 07:44 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2023 06:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74289 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/cobi.13486 |
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