There has been increased interest recently in better understanding the meaning of endangered species as defined in the 1973 U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA). Waples et al. (2007) provide an account that is, in part, a reaction to a position presented by us in Vucetich et al. (2006). Here, we extend this discussion with comments focused on Waples et al. (2007). In the ESA an “endangered species...

The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List classifies species according to their risk of extinction, informing global to local conservation decisions. Unfortunately, important geospatial data do not explicitly or efficiently enter this process. Rapid growth in the availability of remotely sensed observations provides fine-scale data on elevation and increasingly sophisti...

mammals are increasingly affected by ongoing trend of extinction and one fourth of the world’s existing known mammalian species are endangered. lack of proper conservation strategy can lead to non-suitable allocation of resources to larger species and ingoring smaller taxa. despite iran’s rich diversity of mammalian fauna which is predominantly comprised from smaller species (more than 150 spec...

Habitat bioaugmentation and introduction of protective microbiota have been proposed as potential conservation strategies to rescue endangered mammals and amphibians from emerging diseases. For both strategies, insight into the microbiomes of the endangered species and their habitats is essential. Here, we sampled nests of the endangered sea turtle species Eretmochelys imbricata that were infec...