EOORating: IUCN rating based from EOO Area

In rCAT: Conservation Assessment Tools

Description

Calculates IUCN rating based on Extent of Occurance (EOO) Area in km2

Usage

EOORating(EOOArea, abb)

Arguments

EOOArea	Area in km2
abb	TRUE or FALSE , TRUE = 2 letter code, FALSE = full text (see value), default = TRUE

Details

Calculates IUCN rating from EOO

Value

Text one of CR, EN, VU, NT, LC or Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Near Threatened, Least Concern

Note

Any negative values are assumpted to be positive. Near Threatened is set at 30,000 km2, follow example in IUCN petition 2014

Author(s)

Justin Moat. [e-mail]

References

Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A.W., de Torre, J., Scott, B., 2011. Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. Zookeys 126, 117–26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.150.2109

Moat, J., Bachman, S., n.d. GeoCAT Geospatial Conservation Assessment Tool [WWW Document]. URL http://geocat.kew.org/

IUCN, 2012. IUCN RED LIST CATEGORIES AND CRITERIA, 2nd ed. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, 2014. Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 11.

IUCN Standards and Petitions Subcommittee, 2016. Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 12.

Joppa, L.N., Butchart, S.H.M., Hoffmann, M., Bachman, S.P., Akçakaya, H.R., Moat, J.F., Böhm, M., Holland, R.A., Newton, A., Polidoro, B., Hughes, A., 2016. Impact of alternative metrics on estimates of extent of occurrence for extinction risk assessment. Conserv. Biol. 30, 362–370. doi:10.1111/cobi.12591

See Also

EOOarea for EOO calculations

Examples

EOOArea <- 25 
EOORtext <- EOORating(EOOArea,TRUE)

Example output

rCAT documentation built on July 8, 2020, 6:22 p.m.