IUCN Red List Program Bio-indicators Workshop

这次研讨会将把美国和外国的研究人员聚集在一起，发展和加强方法，以扩大世界自然保护联盟濒危物种红色名录作为监测生物多样性趋势的工具的作用。国际自然保护联盟的红色名录被广泛认为是评估动植物物种保护状况的最全面、非政治性的全球系统。为了使红色名录能够作为生物多样性状况、物种状况和生态系统状况的指标发挥作用，需要进行两项重大变革。第一个是更好地记录每一个物种进入名单，特别是它的数量是在增加、减少还是稳定。第二个变化是对红色名录的核心分类范围达成一致。这需要包括那些在世界主要生态系统中具有广泛代表性的群体，那些在分类学上易于处理的群体，那些相当知名的群体，以及那些已经存在或可以开发专门知识网络的群体。本次研讨会的成果将是根据红色名录标准制定指数，为生物多样性规划者提供有价值的工具，并作为红色名录项目战略发展的基础。

This workshop will bring together US and foreign researchers to develop and enhance methodology to expand the role of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as tool for monitoring trends in biodiversity. The International Union of Conservation of Nature's Red List is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, apolitical global system to evaluate the conservation status of plant and animal species. To enable the Red List to function as an indicator of the state of biodiversity, the state of species, and the state of ecosystems, two major changes are required. The first is much better documentation of each species entry in the list, in particular, whether its population is increasing, decreasing, or stable. The second change is agreement on the core taxonomic coverage of the Red List. This needs to include groups that are broadly representative of the major ecosystems of the world, that are taxonomically tractable, that are reasonably well-known, and for which expertise networks exist or could be developed. The outcome of this workshop will be to develop indices from Red List criteria that will provide a valuable tool for biodiversity planners and to serve as the basis for strategic development of the Red-list program.