Tree genetic resources at risk in South America: A spatial threat assessment to prioritize populations for conservation

Humans threat the populations of tree species by overexploitation, deforestation, land use change, and climate change. We present a novel threat assessment at intraspecific level to support the conservation of genetic resources of 80 socioeconomically viable tree species in South America. In this assessment, we evaluate the threat status of Ecogeographic Range Segments (ERSs). ERSs are groups of populations of a specific species in a certain ecological zone of a particular grid cell of a species’ geographic occupancy.
Authors: van Zonneveld, M.; Thomas, E.; Castañeda‐Álvarez, N.P.; Van Damme, V.; Alcazar, C.; Loo, J.; Scheldeman, X.
Subjects: trees, genetic resources
Publication type: ISI, Journal Article, Publication
Year: 2018
ISSN: 1472-4642

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