2017
DOI: 10.7325/galemys.2017.a2
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Reassessment of the conservation status of the Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Abstract: During the last 70 years, the Iberian lynx Lynx pardinus has experienced dramatic changes in its environment, range size, and population size. In a context of widespread support for Iberian lynx conservation, its recent downgrading from Critically Endangered to Endangered in the IUCN Red List has drawn some public concern. Here we expand the summarized account published in the IUCN Red List website to illustrate how assessments are performed in well studied species. Assessment requires assignment to the highes… Show more

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“…Most of these small and isolated subpopulations became extinct, and in 2000-2001 only two of them, Andújar-Cardeña and Doñana, totalling 160 individuals, remained (see Palomares et al, 2011). After strong conservation investments over the past two decades, the metapopulation of Iberian lynx, currently encompassing central and southern Iberia, is showing encouraging signs of recovery (Rodríguez and Calzada, 2015). Still, the success of further conservation efforts will rely heavily on the ability to counteract the drivers enabling the region's successive loss of environmental favourability for the occurrence of this predator over time.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most of these small and isolated subpopulations became extinct, and in 2000-2001 only two of them, Andújar-Cardeña and Doñana, totalling 160 individuals, remained (see Palomares et al, 2011). After strong conservation investments over the past two decades, the metapopulation of Iberian lynx, currently encompassing central and southern Iberia, is showing encouraging signs of recovery (Rodríguez and Calzada, 2015). Still, the success of further conservation efforts will rely heavily on the ability to counteract the drivers enabling the region's successive loss of environmental favourability for the occurrence of this predator over time.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…UICN Criterion D states that a minimum of 50 mature individuals is required to avoid an imminent risk of extinction (Rodríguez & Calzada, 2015). Accordingly, Revilla et al .…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By 2002, less than 100 individuals remained in just two isolated populations (Doñana‐Aljarafe and Andújar‐Cardeña, Fig. 1) (Guzmán et al ., 2004), leading to its classification as critically endangered in the IUCN red list (Rodríguez & Calzada, 2015). Viability models carried out at that time, without including the effects of genetic stochasticity, estimated a high risk of extinction within 100 years (33.8% in Gaona, Ferreras, & Delibes, 1998 and 45.5% in Ferreras et al ., 2001, being the latter the updated version of the former).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a wild cat species endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List (Rodríguez & Calzada 2015). By the beginning of the 21st century, the Iberian lynx was closely to extinction, as only about 100 individuals survived in two isolated subpopulations in South Spain (Andalusia).…”
Section: Iberian Lynx (Lynx Pardinus)mentioning
confidence: 99%