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Title: | Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble |
Authors: | Stanford, Craig B. Iverson, John B Rhodin, Anders G.J. Dijk, Peter Paul Van Mittermeier, Russell A. Kuchling, Gerald Berry, Kristin H. Bertolero, Albert Bjorndal, Karen A. Blanck, Torsten E.G. Buhlmann, Kurt A. Burke, Russell L. Congdon, Justin D. Diagne, Tomas Edwards, Taylor Eisemberg, Carla Camilo Ennen, Joshua R. Forero-Medina, Germán Frankel, Matthew G. Fritz, Uwe Gallego-García, Natalia Georges, Arthur Gibbons, J. Whitfield Gong, Shiping Goode, Eric V. Shi, Haitao Hoang, Ha Hofmeyr, Margaretha D. Horne, Brian D. Hudson, Rick Juvik, James O. Kiester, A. Ross Koval, Patricia Le, Minh Lindeman, Peter V. Lovich, Jeffrey E. Luiselli, Luca Maria McCormack, Timothy E.M. Meyer, George A. Páez, Vivian P. Platt, Kalyar Platt, Steven G. Pritchard, Peter Charles Howard Quinn, Hugh R. Roosenburg, Willem M. Seminoff, Jeffrey A. Shaffer, H. Bradley Spencer, Ricky John van Dyke, James Urban Vogt, Richard Carl Walde, Andrew D. |
Keywords: | Habitat Human Nonhuman Review Tortoise Medicine, Traditional en |
Issue Date: | 2020 |
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: | Current Biology |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | Volume 30, Número 12, Pags. R721-R735 |
Abstract: | Craig Stanford and colleagues review the threats to the world's turtles and tortoises. © 2020 Elsevier Inc.Turtles and tortoises (chelonians) have been integral components of global ecosystems for about 220 million years and have played important roles in human culture for at least 400,000 years. The chelonian shell is a remarkable evolutionary adaptation, facilitating success in terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Today, more than half of the 360 living species and 482 total taxa (species and subspecies combined) are threatened with extinction. This places chelonians among the groups with the highest extinction risk of any sizeable vertebrate group. Turtle populations are declining rapidly due to habitat loss, consumption by humans for food and traditional medicines and collection for the international pet trade. Many taxa could become extinct in this century. Here, we examine survival threats to turtles and tortoises and discuss the interventions that will be needed to prevent widespread extinction in this group in coming decades. © 2020 Elsevier Inc. |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | 10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.088 |
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