Lumpenanalyst#Biodiversity #Indicators: "Finding a clear signal that decreasing prevalence is usually associated with a higher risk of #extinction is a strong indication that we can detect impacts even for #species that are not currently classified as at risk."
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-local-species-trends-flag-global.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-local-species-trends-flag-global.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
Local species trends may flag global extinction risk, global study finds
New research from the University of St. Andrews has shown that higher extinction risk is associated with a higher frequency of decreasing local prevalence of species, in an analysis of one of the most comprehensive long-term databases ever created, BioTIME—a major tool to study biodiversity change also developed at the University of St. Andrews.