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The European union’s 2010 target: Putting rare species in focus
Fontaine, Benoît
Bouchet, Philippe
Van Achterberg, Kees
Alonso Zarazaga, M. A.
Araujo, Rafael
Asche, Manfred
Aspöck, Ulrike
Audisio, Paolo
Aukema, Berend
Bailly, Nicolas
Balsamo, María
Bank, Ruud
Barnard, Peter
Belfiore, Carlo
Bongers, Tom
Boxshall, Geoffrey
Burckhardt, Daniel
Camicas, Jean-Louis
Chylarecki, Przemek
Crucitti, Pierangelo
Deharveng, Lousi
Dubois, Alain
Enghoff, Henrik
Faubel, Anno
Fochetti, Romolo
Gargominy, Olivier
Gibson, David
Gibson, Ray
Gómez López, María Soledad
Goujet, Daniel
Harvey, Mark
Heller, Klaus Gerhard
Van Helsdingen, Peter
Hoch, Hannelore
De Jong, Herman
De Jong, Yde
Karsholt, Ole
Los, Wouter
Lundquist, Lars
Magowski, Wojciech
Manconi, Renata
Martens, Jochen
Massard, Jos A.
Massard Geimer, Gaby
Mcinnes, Sandra J.
Mendes, Luis F.
Mey, Eberhard
Michelsen, Verner
Minelli, Alessandro
Nielsen, Claus
Nieto Nafría, Juan M.
Van Nieukerken, Erik J.
Noyes, John
Pape, Thomas
Pohl, Hans
De Prins, Willy
Ramos, Marian
Ricci, Claudia
Roselaar, Cees
Rota, Emilia
Schmidt Rhaesa, Andreas
Segers, Hendrik
Zur Strassen, Richard
Szeptycki, Andrzej
Thibaud, Jean Marc
Thomas, Alain
Timm, Tarmo
Van Tol, Jan
Vervoort, Wim
Willmann, Rainer
Bogdanowicz, Wieslaw
Zoologia
Ecología. Medio ambiente
Sanidad animal
Zoología
P. 167-185
The European Union has adopted the ambitious target of halting the loss of biodiversity by
2010. Several indicators have been proposed to assess progress towards the 2010 target, two
of them addressing directly the issue of species decline. In Europe, the Fauna Europaea
database gives an insight into the patterns of distribution of a total dataset of 130,000 terrestrial
and freshwater species without taxonomic bias, and provide a unique opportunity
to assess the feasibility of the 2010 target. It shows that the vast majority of European species
are rare, in the sense that they have a restricted range. Considering this, the paper discusses
whether the 2010 target indicators really cover the species most at risk of extinction.
The analysis of a list of 62 globally extinct European taxa shows that most contemporary
extinctions have affected narrow-range taxa or taxa with strict ecological requirements.
Indeed, most European species listed as threatened in the IUCN Red List are narrow-range
species. Conversely, there are as many wide-range species as narrow-range endemics in
the list of protected species in Europe (Bird and Habitat Directives). The subset of
biodiversity captured by the 2010 target indicators should be representative of the whole
biodiversity in terms of patterns of distribution and abundance. Indicators should not overlook
a core characteristic of biodiversity, i.e. the large number of narrow-range species and
their intrinsic vulnerability. With ill-selected indicator species, the extinction of narrowrange
endemics would go unnoticed
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Biological conservation, 2007, n. 139
http://hdl.handle.net/10612/4757
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Elsevier