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PLOS ONE
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003700
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- Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin [fellowship]
- NSERC Canada
- Australian Research Foundation [RN0457921]
- Australian Research Council [RN0457921] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Background: Categories of imperilment like the global IUCN Red List have been transformed to probabilities of extinction and used to rank species by the amount of imperiled evolutionary history they represent ( e. g. by the Edge of Existence programme). We investigate the stability of such lists when ranks are converted to probabilities of extinction under different scenarios. Methodology and Principal Findings: Using a simple example and computer simulation, we show that preserving the categories when converting such list designations to probabilities of extinction does not guarantee the stability of the resulting lists. Significance: Care must be taken when choosing a suitable transformation, especially if conservation dollars are allocated to species in a ranked fashion. We advocate routine sensitivity analyses.
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