Authors: Everton A Maciel Pedro V Eisenlohr
Publish Date: 2016/02/20
Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 611-614
Abstract
Biodiversity conservation approaches based on collective analysis of endangered species have commonly been used to guide decisionmaking However Lõhmus 2015 raised some crucial points that call into question such an approach Among the author’s arguments over collective analysis are 1 the temporal bias accompanying the lists of species 2 circular thinking when broader issues could be addressed 3 the sample bias due to the scale and 4 marginalising assemblages with a small pool of species In part we agree with Lõhmus 2015 but we believe the collective analysis of species can be used in cases where researchers endeavour to address gaps in such lists In response to Lõhmus 2015 we demonstrate how these gaps can be circumvented To justify our opinion we take as an example our observations on endangered tree species in the transition between the two largest areas of South America the Cerrado and Amazonia and discuss how these species can be combined with
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