High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction

B Goettsch, C Hilton-Taylor, G Cruz-Piñón, JP Duffy… - Nature plants, 2015 - nature.com
… , the iconic Cactaceae (cacti). We show that cacti are among the most threatened taxonomic
… the 1,478 evaluated species threatened, demonstrating the high anthropogenic pressures …

High proportion of cactus species threatened with extinction

AM Abba - Nature Plants, 2015 - sedici.unlp.edu.ar
… , the iconic Cactaceae (cacti). We show that cacti are among the most threatened taxonomic
… the 1,478 evaluated species threatened, demonstrating the high anthropogenic pressures …

Global gap analysis of cactus species and priority sites for their conservation

B Goettsch, AP Durán, KJ Gaston - Conservation Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… However, it remains unknown what proportion of their geographic ranges this coverage …
high incidence of small ranges within the Cactaceae, we expected a high proportion of species

Elevated extinction risk of cacti under climate change

M Pillet, B Goettsch, C Merow, B Maitner, X Feng… - Nature plants, 2022 - nature.com
threatened. Our results suggest that climate change will become a primary driver of cactus
extinction risk with 60–90% of species … threat processes are distributed across cactus species. …

Diversity and conservation in the cactus family

P Ortega-Baes, S Sühring, J Sajama, E Sotola… - Desert plants: Biology …, 2010 - Springer
… These results show that the proportion of cactus species categorized as endangered is
low. This is particularly critical for certain taxonomic groups (eg, tribes Notocacteae, …

[HTML][HTML] Endemic communities of Cactaceae in danger of extinction. A need for conservation of natural resources in the district of Pacaycasa. Ayacucho-Peru

RE Huamaní-Sulca, J De La Cruz-Arango… - Journal of the Selva …, 2020 - portal.amelica.org
… Therefore, when a population has a large number of young people, the population is … (because
of its high proportion of young individuals) unlike the other species. This is because in the …

[PDF][PDF] Mexican threatened cacti: current status and strategies for their conservation

MS Santos-Díaz, E Pérez-Molphe… - … and extinction, 2010 - researchgate.net
cacti show long root systems (up to 15 meters, such as in ‘saguaro’) and are able to accumulate
significant amount … However, a great number of cacti species are propagated merely by …

Effects of trade and poaching pressure on extinction risk for cacti in the Atacama Desert

A Villalobo‐Lopez, CM Peña… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
plants are facing unprecedented extinction rates. We conducted an assessment of the extinction
risk of 32 species … of trade and poaching on their extinction risk. We employed machine …

Assessing the importance of multiple threats to an endangered globose cactus in Mexico: cattle grazing, looting and climate change

C Martorell, DM Montañana, C Ureta… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
… Adult-plant looting is small relative to the number of plants we predict live in the very large
(and mostly inaccessible) PDA of the species. In most cacti, sexual reproduction makes only a …

Global diversity and conservation priorities in the Cactaceae

P Ortega-Baes, H Godínez-Alvarez - Biodiversity & Conservation, 2006 - Springer
… for the conservation of the cactus family since 36% of all species occur in its territory (…
important to preserve high proportions of cacti species. Thus, the proportion of species that could …