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The Use of Extinction Risk Theory in Marine Biodiversity Conservation Planning and in Mitigation and Adaptation Research
Kent Carpenter, Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University
The assessment of species under the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List Categories and Criteria are based on extinction risk theory. To date, over 70,000 species have been assessed for the IUCN Red List, including a growing fraction of marine species. These marine assessments have largely been carried out over the past 10 years through an initiative named the Global Marine Species Assessment, based at Old Dominion University. The utility of Red List Assessments in conservation planning and biodiversity monitoring is well established. With a growing data set of a suite of keystone marine species, the use of Red List Assessments in Mitigation and Adaptation Research is now feasible.