A threatened species index for Australian birds

Elisa Bayraktarov; Glenn Ehmke; Ayesha I.T. Tulloch; Alienor L. Chauvenet; Stephanie Avery-Gomm; Louise McRae; Brendan A. Wintle; James O'Connor; Joris Driessen; James Watmuff; Hoang Anh Nguyen; Stephen T. Garnett; John Woinarski; Megan Barnes; Rachel Morgain; Siddeswara Guru; Hugh P. Possingham

doi:10.1111/csp2.322

A threatened species index for Australian birds

Elisa Bayraktarov, Glenn Ehmke, Ayesha I.T. Tulloch, Alienor L. Chauvenet, Stephanie Avery-Gomm, Louise McRae, Brendan A. Wintle, James O'Connor, Joris Driessen, James Watmuff, Hoang Anh Nguyen, Stephen T. Garnett, John Woinarski, Megan Barnes, Rachel Morgain, Siddeswara Guru, Hugh P. Possingham

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Quantifying species population trends is crucial for monitoring progress towards global conservation targets, justifying investments, planning targeted responses and raising awareness about threatened species. Many global indicators are slow in response and report on common species, not on those at greatest risk of extinction. Here we develop a Threatened Species Index as a dynamic tool for tracking annual changes in Australia's imperiled birds. Based on the Living Planet Index method and containing more than 17,000 time series for 65 bird taxa surveyed systematically, the index at its second iteration shows an average reduction of 59% between 1985 and 2016, and 44% between 2000 and 2016. Decreases seem most severe for shorebirds and terrestrial birds and least severe for seabirds. The index provides a potential means for measuring performance against the Convention on Biological Diversity's Aichi Target 12, enabling governments, agencies and the public to observe changes in threatened species.

Original language	English
Article number	e322
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Conservation Science and Practice
Volume	3
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.322
Publication status	Published - Feb 2021

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This research received funding from the Australian Government's National Environment Science Program through the Threatened Species Recovery Hub. The research has drawn on the collective efforts of government (Commonwealth, state and territory) conservation agencies and innumerable passionate, dedicated people from non‐governmental organizations, academic institutions and citizen science programs from all Australian states and territories. A full list of data contributors is available in the Supplementary Material ( Table S5 ) and on tsx.org.au . The software infrastructure for the development of the Threatened Species Index is hosted on QRISCloud, a Queensland Node of Australian Research Data Commons research cloud (funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)). AITT is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award.

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© 2020 The Authors. Conservation Science and Practice published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology.

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Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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Bayraktarov, E., Ehmke, G., Tulloch, A. I. T., Chauvenet, A. L., Avery-Gomm, S., McRae, L., Wintle, B. A., O'Connor, J., Driessen, J., Watmuff, J., Nguyen, H. A., Garnett, S. T., Woinarski, J., Barnes, M., Morgain, R., Guru, S., & Possingham, H. P. (2021). A threatened species index for Australian birds. Conservation Science and Practice, 3(2), 1-11. Article e322. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.322

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