Publications by authors named "Oenone Scott"
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- Human-driven extinction poses a significant risk to jawed vertebrates, potentially leading to a loss of 86-150 billion years of evolutionary history in the next few centuries.
- The study ranks species using EDGE scores to prioritize conservation efforts, with chondrichthyans, ray-finned fish, and testudines being the most at risk.
- Families of jawed vertebrates with only one species (monotypic families) are more threatened and declining compared to other groups, emphasizing the need for targeted conservation actions.
The conservation of evolutionary history has been linked to increased benefits for humanity and can be captured by phylogenetic diversity (PD). The Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) metric has, since 2007, been used to prioritise threatened species for practical conservation that embody large amounts of evolutionary history. While there have been important research advances since 2007, they have not been adopted in practice because of a lack of consensus in the conservation community.
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