LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

Emergy-based assessment of threatened and endangered terrestrial species: A case study from Xiamen City, Fujian Province

Photo from wikipedia

The implementation of value assessments and analysis of the effectiveness of protection of different types of threatened and endangered species has become a key issue in biodiversity research. Current research… Click to show full abstract

The implementation of value assessments and analysis of the effectiveness of protection of different types of threatened and endangered species has become a key issue in biodiversity research. Current research into threatened and endangered species focuses on defining the level of endangerment and determining the priority of protection, and it is subject to problems, such as cross⁃management of different protection levels, lack of value assessment methods, and repetitive calculations. In this study, the number of different endangered species in Xiamen was determined using the IUCN endangered grade and the list of endemic species in China. Based on this, the emergy / GDP ratio was used to estimate the number of threatened and endangered species in Xiamen City. According to the collected, summarized, and analyzed

Keywords: threatened endangered; endangered species; emergy based; xiamen city; assessment

Journal Title: Acta Ecologica Sinica
Year Published: 2019

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.