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The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

2012; Elsevier BV; Volume: 157; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.biocon.2012.07.015

1873-2917

Monika Böhm, Ben Collen, Jonathan Baillie, Philip Bowles, Janice Chanson, Neil A. Cox, Geoffrey A. Hammerson, Michael Hoffmann, Suzanne R. Livingstone, Mala Ram, Anders G. J. Rhodin, Simon N. Stuart, Peter Paul van Dijk, Bruce E. Young, Leticia E. Afuang, Aram Aghasyan, Andrés García, César Aguilar, Rastko Ajtić, Ferdi Akarsu, Laura R. V. Alencar, Allen Allison, Natalia B. Ananjeva, Steve Anderson, Claes Andrén, Daniel Ariano‐Sánchez, Juan Camilo Arredondo, Mark Auliya, Christopher C. Austin, Aziz Avcı, Patrick J. Baker, André Felipe Barreto‐Lima, César L. Barrio‐Amorós, Dhruvayothi Basu, Michael F. Bates, Alexandre Milaré Batistella, Aaron M. Bauer, Daniel Bennett, Wolfgang Böhme, Don Broadley, Rafe M. Brown, Joseph Burgess, Ashok Captain, Santiago Carreira, María del Rosario Castañeda, Fernando Castro‐Herrera, Alessandro Catenazzi, José Rogelio Cedeño‐Vázquez, David G. Chapple, Marc Cheylan, Diego F. Cisneros‐Heredia, Dan Cogălniceanu, Hal Cogger, Claudia Corti, Gabriel C. Costa, Patrick Couper, Tony Courtney, Jelka Crnobrnja‐Isailović, Pierre-André Crochet, Brian I. Crother, Félix B. Cruz, Jennifer C. Daltry, R. J. Ranjit Daniels, Indraneil Das, Anslem de Silva, Arvin C. Diesmos, Lutz Dirksen, Tiffany M. Doan, C. Kenneth Dodd, J. Sean Doody, Michael E. Dorcas, José Duarte de Barros Filho, Vincent T. Egan, El Hassan El Mouden, Dirk Embert, Robert E. Espinoza, Alejandro Fallabrino, Feng Xie, Zhao-Jun Feng, Lee A. Fitzgerald, Oscar Flores‐Villela, Frederico Gustavo Rodrigues França, Darrell Frost, Héctor Gadsden, Tony Gamble, S.R. Ganesh, Miguel A. Garcia, Juan E. García-Pérez, Joey Gatus, Maren Gaulke, Philippe Géniez, Arthur Georges, Justin Gerlach, Stephen R. Goldberg, Juan-Carlos T. Gonzalez, David J. Gower, Tandora D. Grant, Eli Greenbaum, Cristina Grieco, Peng Guo, Alison M. Hamilton, Kelly M. Hare, S. Blair Hedges, Neil Heideman, Craig Hilton‐Taylor, Rod Hitchmough, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Mark N. Hutchinson, Ivan Ineich, John B. Iverson, Fabián M. Jaksić, Richard K. B. Jenkins, Ulrich Joger, Reizl Jose, Yakup Kaska, Uğur Kaya, J. Scott Keogh, Günther Köhler, Gerald Kuchling, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Axel Kwet, Enrique La Marca, William W. Lamar, Amanda Lane, Björn Lardner, Craig Latta, Gabrielle Latta, Michael Lau, Pablo Lavín, Dwight P. Lawson, Matthew LeBreton, Edgar Lehr, Duncan J. Limpus, Nicola Lipczynski, Aaron Savio Lobo, Marco A. López‐Luna, Luca Luiselli, Vimoksalehi Lukoschek, Mikael Lundberg, Petros Lymberakis, Robert Macey, William E. Magnusson, D. Luke Mahler, Anita Malhotra, Jean Mariaux, Bryan Maritz, Otávio Augusto Vuolo Marques, Rafael Márquez, Marcio Roberto Martins, Gavin Masterson, José Antonio Mateo, Rosamma Mathew, Nixon Mathews, Gregory C. Mayer, James R. McCranie, John Measey, Fernando Mendoza-Quijano, Michele Menegon, Sébastien Métrailler, David A. Milton, Chad E. Montgomery, Sérgio Augusto Abrahão Morato, Tamí Mott, Antonio Muñoz‐Alonso, John C. Murphy, Truong Quang Nguyen, Göran Nilson, Cristiano de Campos Nogueira, Herman Núñez, Nikolai L. Orlov, Hidetoshi Ota, José A. Ottenwalder, Theodore J. Papenfuss, Stesha A. Pasachnik, Paulo Gustavo Homem Passos, Olivier S. G. Pauwels, Néstor Pérez-Buitrago, Valentı́n Pérez-Mellado, Eric R. Pianka, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Caroline M. Pollock, Paulino Ponce-Campos, Robert Powell, Fabio Pupin, Gustavo E. Díaz, Raju Radder, Jan Ramer, Arne Redsted Rasmussen, C. J. Raxworthy, Robert P. Reynolds, Nadia I. Richman, Edmund Leo B. Rico, Elisa Riservato, Gilson A. Rivas, Pedro Luís Bernardo da Rocha, Mark‐Oliver Rödel, Lourdes Rodrí­guez Schettino, Willem M. Roosenburg, James Perran Ross, Riyad Sadek, Kate L. Sanders, Georgina Santos-Barrera, Hermann H. Schleich, Benedikt R. Schmidt, Andreas Schmitz, Mozafar Sharifi, Glenn M. Shea, Hai-tao Shi, Richard Shine, Roberto Sindaco, Tahar Slimani, Ruchira Somaweera, Steve Spawls, Peter J. Stafford, Rob Stuebing, Sam Sweet, Emerson Sy, Helen Temple, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Krystal A. Tolley, Peter J. Tolson, Boris S. Tuniyev, Sako B. Tuniyev, Nazan Üzüm, Gerard van Buurt, Monique Van Sluys, Álvaro Velasco, Miguel Vences, Milan Veselý, Sabine Vinke, Thomas Vinke, Gernot Vogel, Milan Vogrin, Richard C. Vogt, Oliver R. Wearn, Yehudah L. Werner, Martin J. Whiting, Thomas A. Wiewandt, John W. Wilkinson, Byron Wilson, Sally Wren, Tara Zamin, Kaiya Zhou, George R. Zug,

Species Distribution and Climate Change

Effective and targeted conservation action requires detailed information about species, their distribution, systematics and ecology as well as the distribution of threat processes which affect them. Knowledge of reptilian diversity remains surprisingly disparate, and innovative means of gaining rapid insight into the status of reptiles are needed in order to highlight urgent conservation cases and inform environmental policy with appropriate biodiversity information in a timely manner. We present the first ever global analysis of extinction risk in reptiles, based on a random representative sample of 1500 species (16% of all currently known species). To our knowledge, our results provide the first analysis of the global conservation status and distribution patterns of reptiles and the threats affecting them, highlighting conservation priorities and knowledge gaps which need to be addressed urgently to ensure the continued survival of the world’s reptiles. Nearly one in five reptilian species are threatened with extinction, with another one in five species classed as Data Deficient. The proportion of threatened reptile species is highest in freshwater environments, tropical regions and on oceanic islands, while data deficiency was highest in tropical areas, such as Central Africa and Southeast Asia, and among fossorial reptiles. Our results emphasise the need for research attention to be focussed on tropical areas which are experiencing the most dramatic rates of habitat loss, on fossorial reptiles for which there is a chronic lack of data, and on certain taxa such as snakes for which extinction risk may currently be underestimated due to lack of population information. Conservation actions specifically need to mitigate the effects of human-induced habitat loss and harvesting, which are the predominant threats to reptiles.