ArticleConservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology2024
Preventing extinction in an age of species migration and planetary change.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Native and introduced megafauna have convergent effects on animals and ecosystems: a meta-analysis.Nature communications · 2026Pooled it
- Estimating the Impacts of Future Extreme Heat on Dryland Threatened Mammals: An Australian Case Study.Global change biology · 2026Pooled it
- Assessing the Genetic Health and Conservation Value of an Introduced Urban Population of a Critically Endangered Parrot.Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- A Prickly Problem: Genome Skimming Reveals Varying Levels of Phylogenetic Diversity in the Freshwater CrayfishEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Many pasts, many futures: Navigating the complexities of species reshuffling to help prevent extinctions.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2026Review
- Non-Native Plants Attain Native Levels of Microherbivory Richness With Time and Range Expansion.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Many non-native plant species are threatened in parts of their native range.The New phytologist · 2025Article
- Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2025Review
- Preventing extinction in an age of species migration and planetary change.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
International and national conservation policies almost exclusively focus on conserving species in their historic native ranges, thus excluding species that have been introduced by people and some of those that have extended their ranges on their own accord. Given that many of such migrants are threatened in their native ranges, conservation goals that explicitly exclude these populations may overlook opportunities to prevent extinctions and respond dynamically to rapidly changing environmental and climatic conditions. Focusing on terrestrial mammals, we quantified the number of threatened mammals that have established new populations through assisted migration (i.e., introduction). We devised 4 alternative scenarios for the inclusion of assisted-migrant populations in mainstream conservation policy with the aim of preventing global species extinctions. We then used spatial prioritization algorithms to simulate how these scenarios could change global spatial conservation priorities. We found that 22% (70 species out of 265) of all identified assisted-migrant mammals were threatened in their native ranges, mirroring the 25% of all mammals that are threatened. Reassessing global threat statuses by combining native and migrant ranges reduced the threat status of 23 species (∼33% of threatened assisted migrants). Thus, including migrant populations in threat assessments provides a more accurate assessment of actual global extinction risk among species. Spatial prioritization simulations showed that reimagining the role of assisted-migrant populations in preventing species extinction could increase the importance of overlooked landscapes, particularly in central Australia, Europe, and the southwestern United States. Our results indicated that these various and nonexhaustive ways to consider assisted-migrant populations, with due consideration of potential conservation conflicts with resident taxa, may provide unprecedented opportunities to prevent species extinctions.
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