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Artículo
Autoría
Goettsch, Bárbara
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Hilton-Taylor, Craig
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Cruz-Piñón, Gabriela
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Duffy, James P.
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Frances, Anne
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Hernández, Héctor M.
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Inger, Richard
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Pollock, Caroline
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Schipper, Jan
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Superina, Mariella
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Taylor, Nigel P.
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Tognelli, Marcelo
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Abba, Agustín M.
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Arias, Salvador
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Arreola-Nava, Hilda J.
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Baker, Marc A.
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Bárcenas, Rolando T.
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Barrios, Duniel
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Butterworth, Charles A.
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Búrquez, Alberto
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Caceres, Fátima
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Chazaro-Basañez, Miguel
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Corral-Díaz, Rafael
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Del Valle Perea, Mario
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Demaio, Pablo H.
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Duarte De Barros, Williams A.
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Durán, Rafael
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Yancas, Luis Faúndez
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Felger, Richard S.
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Fitz-Maurice, Betty
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Fitz-Maurice, Walter A.
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Gann, George
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Gómez-Hinostrosa, Carlos
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Gonzales-Torres, Luis R.
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Patrick Griffith, M.
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Guerrero, Pablo C.
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Hammel, Barry
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Heil, Kenneth D.
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Hernández-Oria, José Guadalupe
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Hoffmann, Michael
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Ishihara, Mario Ishiki
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Kiesling, Roberto
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Larocca, João
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León-De La Luz, José Luis
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Loaiza S., Christian R.
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Lowry, Martin
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MacHado, Marlon C.
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Majure, Lucas C.
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Ávalos, José Guadalupe Martínez
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Martorell, Carlos
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Maschinski, Joyce
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Méndez, Eduardo
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Mittermeier, Russell A.
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Nassar, Jafet M.
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Negrón-Ortiz, Vivian
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Oakley, Luis J.
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ORTEGA BAES, FRANCISCO PABLO
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Ferreira, Ana Beatriz Pin
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Pinkava, Donald J.
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Porter, J. Mark
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Puente-Martinez, Raul
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Gamarra, José Roque
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Pérez, Patricio Saldivia
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Martínez, Emiliano Sánchez
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Manuel Sotomayor M Del C, J.
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Stuart, Simon N.
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Muñoz, José Luis Tapia
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Terrazas, Teresa
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Terry, Martin
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Trevisson, Marcelo
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Valverde, Teresa
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Van Devender, Thomas R.
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Véliz-Pérez, Mario Esteban
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Walter, Helmut E.
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Wyatt, Sarah A.
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Zappi, Daniela
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Alejandro Zavala-Hurtado, J.
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Gaston, Kevin J.
Fecha
2015
Editorial y Lugar de Edición
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Revista
Nature Plants,
vol. 1
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
Resumen
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A high proportion of plant species is predicted to be threatened with extinction in the near future. However, the threat status of only a small number has been evaluated compared with key animal groups, rendering the magnitude and nature of the risks plants face unclear. Here we report the results of a global species assessment for the largest plant taxon evaluated to date under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Categories and Criteria, the iconic Cactaceae (cac...
A high proportion of plant species is predicted to be threatened with extinction in the near future. However, the threat status of only a small number has been evaluated compared with key animal groups, rendering the magnitude and nature of the risks plants face unclear. Here we report the results of a global species assessment for the largest plant taxon evaluated to date under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Categories and Criteria, the iconic Cactaceae (cacti). We show that cacti are among the most threatened taxonomic groups assessed to date, with 31% of the 1,478 evaluated species threatened, demonstrating the high anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity in arid lands. The distribution of threatened species and the predominant threatening processes and drivers are different to those described for other taxa. The most significant threat processes comprise land conversion to agriculture and aquaculture, collection as biological resources, and residential and commercial development. The dominant drivers of extinction risk are the unscrupulous collection of live plants and seeds for horticultural trade and private ornamental collections, smallholder livestock ranching and smallholder annual agriculture. Our findings demonstrate that global species assessments are readily achievable for major groups of plants with relatively moderate resources, and highlight different conservation priorities and actions to those derived from species assessments of key animal groups.
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Threatened speciesConservation biologyRed ListCacti