Ranking threats to biodiversity and why it doesn’t matter
Céline Bellard, Clara Marino, Franck Courchamp
Abstract
Conservation scientists have proposed several rankings of the relative importance of global threats to biodiversity. Here, we argue that relative ranking of biodiversity threats depends on local context and metrics used, and so has little application for conservation. Several rankings of the relative importance of global threats to biodiversity have been proposed. This Comment argues that relative rankings of biodiversity threats have little application for conservation and might even mislead policymaking.
Topics & Concepts
BiodiversityRanking (information retrieval)Context (archaeology)Biodiversity conservationGlobal biodiversityEnvironmental resource managementGeographyEcologyComputer scienceBiologyEnvironmental scienceInformation retrievalArchaeologyEnvironmental Conservation and ManagementEconomic and Environmental ValuationConservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management