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{"title":"Evaluating protected areas' coverage of threats to terrestrial biodiversity.","authors":"Katherine Pulido-Chadid, Carsten Rahbek, Jonas Geldmann","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70086","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Protected areas (PAs) are vital for biodiversity conservation and have expanded globally. However, increasing pressures on biodiversity make it difficult to achieve conservation goals. Using threat probability maps based on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List and the World Database of Protected Areas, we analyzed the relationship between PA coverage and the major threats to amphibians, birds, mammals, and reptiles-agriculture, hunting, logging, pollution, invasive species, and urbanization. We included data on 33,379 species and 255,848 protected sites. We analyzed the relationship between threat probabilities and PA coverage with generalized additive models. Then, we grouped grid cells into discrete threat-protection categories and examined global spatial patterns. We focused three types of areas: areas with a high probability of threat that coincided with inadequate PA coverage; areas that had simultaneous threats; and areas with a high concentration of threatened species. We found a potential disconnect between global PAs and threat coverage. Twenty-one percent of areas had a high probability of threat, of which 76% were insufficiently protected. Over half of amphibian and mammal habitat was highly threatened and was insufficiently covered by PAs. Amphibians were subject to the highest proportion of simultaneous threats. Underprotected areas harbored the largest proportion of threatened species across all taxonomic groups. Our results provide crucial insights into the spatial relationship between threats and PA coverage and can be used to inform conservation planning at large scales.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70086"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144257536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seabird restoration priorities for the U.S. Pacific Islands","authors":"André F. Raine,&nbsp;Jason Gregg,&nbsp;Mike McFarlin,&nbsp;Scott Driskill,&nbsp;Roberta Swift,&nbsp;Helen Raine","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70084","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The U.S. Pacific Islands (USPIs) comprise a globally significant region for seabirds, with some of the largest and most diverse assemblages of tropical seabird species in the world. To help direct seabird conservation in USPIs, we conducted a survey of 75 regional seabird experts and compared results with our own technical risk assessments based on 14 scoring criteria for all 27 nonfederally listed seabird species with confirmed breeding populations in USPIs. Survey respondents identified 28 factors for ranking priority species for restoration. The 3 most cited were climate change vulnerability (36.0%), restricted distribution (10.5%), and presence of introduced predators (9.4%). They were also largely in agreement with the priority species identified in our technical risk assessment. Combining both assessments, the 5 species identified as being most in need of colony restoration projects were (in descending order) black-footed albatross (<i>Phoebastria nigripes</i>), Polynesian storm-petrel (<i>Nesofregetta fuliginosa</i>), Tristram's storm-petrel (<i>Hydrobates tristrami</i>), Bonin petrel (<i>Pterodroma hypoleuca</i>), and Tahiti petrel (<i>Pseudobulweria rostrata</i>). Respondents also identified 21 source colonies for translocation and 107 receptor sites for colony restoration. Our collaborative approach presented a unique opportunity to gain a collective insight into the perceived threats for seabirds throughout the region and identified priority species and potential sites for restoration projects. Furthermore, our study highlighted the fact that seabird experts across the region consider climate change and the resultant loss of low-lying seabird islands a primary conservation concern that increases the urgency of colony restoration projects on high islands across the USPIs.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144257537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emergence, spread, and impact of high-pathogenicity avian influenza H5 in wild birds and mammals of South America and Antarctica.","authors":"Thijs Kuiken, Ralph Eric Thijl Vanstreels, Ashley Banyard, Lineke Begeman, Andrew Breed, Meagan Dewar, Ruben Fijn, Patricia Pereira Serafini, Marcela Uhart, Michelle Wille","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70052","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The currently circulating high-pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) virus of the subtype H5 causes variable illness and death in wild and domestic birds and mammals, as well as in humans. This virus evolved from the Goose/Guangdong lineage of the HPAI H5 virus, which emerged in commercial poultry in China in 1996, spilled over into wild birds, and spread through Asia, Europe, Africa, and North America by 2021. Our objective was to summarize the spread and impact of the HPAI H5 virus in wild birds and mammals in South America, evaluate the risk of its spread and potential impact on Antarctic wildlife, and consider actions to manage the current and future HPAI outbreaks in wildlife. We obtained data on HPAI H5 virus detection and reported wildlife deaths from websites, newspaper articles, and scientific publications. The virus arrived in South America in October 2022. Thereafter, it spread widely and rapidly throughout the continent, where it infected at least 83 wild bird species and 11 wild mammal species and is estimated to have killed at least 667,000 wild birds and 52,000 wild mammals. The HPAI H5 virus spread to the Antarctic region by October 2023 and to mainland Antarctica by December 2023. This spread was associated with multiple mortality events in seabirds and marine mammals. The high spatial density of colonies of various Antarctic species of birds and mammals provides conditions for potentially devastating outbreaks with severe conservation implications. Ecosystem-level impacts may follow, and affected populations may take decades to recover. Although little can be done to stop the virus spread in wildlife, it is important to continue targeted surveillance of wildlife populations for HPAI H5 virus incursion and assessment of the spread and impact of disease to inform adaptation of conservation plans and to help policy makers mitigate and prevent future HPAI outbreaks.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70052"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144224600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Finding floral and faunal species richness optima among active fire regimes.","authors":"Zachary L Steel, Alissa M Fogg, Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, Kate Wilkin, Brandon M Collins, Ryan Burnett, Marc D Meyer, Amarina Wuenschel, Scott L Stephens","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70079","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Changing fire regimes have important implications for biodiversity and challenge traditional conservation approaches that rely on historical conditions as proxies for ecological integrity. This historical-centric approach becomes increasingly tenuous under climate change, necessitating direct tests of environmental impacts on biodiversity. At the same time, widespread departures from historical fire regimes have limited the ability to sample diverse fire histories. We examined 2 areas in California's Sierra Nevada (USA) with active fire regimes to study the responses of bird, plant, and bat communities to a broad spectrum of temporal, spatial, and severity patterns of fire. Bird and plant species richness peaked in the first decade following fire. Species richness was highest with moderate burn severity for birds and with low burn severity for plants. Bat richness increased with longer mean fire-return intervals and was greatest in landscapes that included predominantly unburned areas or moderate to high burn severity patches. All taxa responded positively to pyrodiversity, with effect sizes varying with the metric used to assess variation in fire patterns. Our results suggest that restoring historical fire regimes would benefit biodiversity relative to most contemporary dry forests in California, but that total species richness would be highest under somewhat more frequent and varied severity fires than historical targets would indicate. Given the variable optima among taxa, managing for a range of complementary conditions that create local and landscape heterogeneity would best accommodate diverse flora and fauna and other forest conservation objectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70079"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144224611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Brazil's restoration blueprint for biodiversity credits","authors":"Maria Lucia Ferreira Barbosa,&nbsp;Carlos Delano Cardoso de Oliveira,&nbsp;Vinicius Tonetti,&nbsp;José Matheus Segre Moneva Viveiros,&nbsp;Gerd Sparovek,&nbsp;Jean Ometto,&nbsp;Paulo Guilherme Molin","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70063","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70063","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;The biodiversity credits market is a financial mechanism aimed at incentivizing the conservation and recovery of biological diversity by linking ecological outcomes to economic value. Evolving over 2 decades through diverse approaches (World Economic Forum, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;), this market has gained prominence as a major global economic opportunity (Yan et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). At COP16 in 2024, new platforms were introduced to bolster the market's growth. An advisory panel led by the United Kingdom and France presented a framework for trading “high-integrity” credits (IAPB, &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;), and Verra launched a system for creating nature credits (https://verra.org/verra-launches-nature-framework/). In Brazil, some initiatives, such as the one led by Ecosystem Regeneration Associates (ERA), are already rewarding land stewards for preserving biodiversity, with a focus on conserving the jaguar (&lt;i&gt;Panthera onca&lt;/i&gt;) as an umbrella species (https://www.erabrazil.com/biodiversity). Despite that, a targeted biodiversity credits market for Brazil is yet to be developed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brazil is the most biodiverse country in the world, boasting 6 terrestrial biomes, an extensive coastline, and 2 biodiversity hotspots (Myers et al., &lt;span&gt;2000&lt;/span&gt;). Yet, its biodiversity's potential to contribute to sustainable bioeconomic growth and development remains largely overlooked (Ellwanger et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). Although Brazil is uniquely positioned to lead in integrating biodiversity into its economic, environmental, and social policies, this integration requires a fundamental shift in how natural capital is valued and integrated in market-based conservation strategies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brazil has demonstrated leadership in environmental conservation, notably during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and by reducing Amazon deforestation by over 80% from 2004 to 2012. However, biodiversity loss remains a critical problem. For instance, forest fragments in Brazil's Atlantic Forest lost 25–32% of their biomass and 23–31% of their species diversity from 1985 to 2017 (Lima et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). Moreover, 65% of all tree species and 82% of endemic tree species in the Atlantic Forest are threatened (Lima et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;). Tree losses directly reduce biomass and, consequently, carbon storage capacity. In the Atlantic Forest, this decline has led to an estimated US$2.3–2.6 billion in lost carbon credits (Lima et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). Still, carbon credits fail to capture the broader ecological decline, including reduced ecosystem resilience.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Given the accelerating global loss of biodiversity and climate change, restoring ecosystems has never been more pressing. Ecological restoration in Brazil has advanced significantly (Rodrigues et al., &lt;span&gt;2009&lt;/span&gt;; Rother et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) because it is underpinned by robust legal frameworks to reverse ecosystem degradation (Brazil, &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; &lt;span&gt;2017&lt;/span&gt;). Supported by a national ecologic","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144246857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the normative roles of biodiversity and naturalness in conservation","authors":"David Saltz,&nbsp;Shlomo Cohen","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70072","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Nature</i> is an opaque concept. Consequently, the term <i>biodiversity conservation</i> has replaced <i>nature conservation</i> in most conservation contexts. We review the conceptual indeterminacies that plague the terms <i>nature</i> and <i>natural</i> but then show that comparable difficulties plague <i>biodiversity</i>. Then, we provide a new theory that sorts out the respective normative roles of naturalness and biodiversity within the ecocentric–intrinsic school of conservation. This is an elaboration on the conservation philosophy presented by Saltz and Cohen (2023). They presented a 3-tiered normative scheme: ultimate value, midlevel principles, and lower level case-specific judgments. The ultimate value is naturalness, which exists on a gradient. Ethical judgment is needed to choose the most adequate midlevel principle or principles among autonomy, integrity, and resilience based on case-specific parameters and the goal of maximizing naturalness in a given area. Saltz and Cohen (2023) do not specify the role of biodiversity, however. We fill in that crucial gap by explaining that the midlevel principles refer to structural and functional biodiversity. The principles prioritized are those that will contribute the most to naturalness, depending on the biodiversity attributes and management options in a given area. In this scheme, biodiversity represents the lower tier, case-specific metrics for assessing naturalness. However, because biodiversity can only be quantified by proxies that cannot be projected onto a unified scale, <i>biodiversity</i> acts as an umbrella term for the measures that are the metrics for assessing naturalness. As such, biodiversity is a salient parameter to be measured for maximizing naturalness in conservation and is analogous to measures of homeostasis for safeguarding health in medicine.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144224614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategically timing land protection decisions to enhance biodiversity benefits.","authors":"Paul R Armsworth, Rachel E Fovargue, Amanda A Hyman, Gwenllian D Iacona, Charles B Sims, Hyun Seok Yoon","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Choices conservation organizations make when designing and implementing protected area strategies affect the timing of land protection. Well-timed habitat protection will have a greater impact on biodiversity outcomes; yet, decisions affecting the timing of protection have received much less attention than other aspects of protected area design. We reviewed evidence on the timing of protected area establishment and on temporal variation in factors influencing the ecological effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of establishing protected areas. Protected area coverage often increases in episodic bursts rather than at some uniform rate. Moreover, temporal variation in biodiversity indicators, habitat conversion threats, and the cost of protecting land suggests that the conservation benefit of protecting land at some times will be greater than that at others. Conservation organizations increase their flexibility to choose when they protect land by using flexibility-creating mechanisms, such as loans, multiyear budgeting, and endowment management. Models and theory suggest how this can be done to have the largest positive impact for conservation by exploiting long- and short-term variation in factors that affect the rate of biodiversity return on protected area investments.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70068"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144224623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rapid riparian ecosystem decline in Rocky Mountain National Park","authors":"David J. Cooper,&nbsp;E. William Schweiger,&nbsp;Jeremy R. Shaw,&nbsp;Cherie J. Westbrook,&nbsp;Kristen Kaczynski,&nbsp;Hanem Abouelezz,&nbsp;Scott M. Esser,&nbsp;Koren Nydick,&nbsp;Isabel de Silva,&nbsp;Rodney A. Chimner","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70053","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding the drivers of ecosystem collapse is critical for resource management, particularly for protected areas mandated to preserve biodiversity. In Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, tall willows (<i>Salix</i> spp.) dominated riparian vegetation, and a beaver–willow state was the natural ecosystem type in the Colorado River headwaters. However, willows comprise a portion of elk diets and are a preferred food for recently introduced moose, and the vegetation structure has changed dramatically since the early 2000s. To assess ecosystem changes, we analyzed time-series data on willow height from 1997 to 2021 inside and outside 3 exclosures built to exclude ungulates, area of tall willows in 1999 and 2019, area of open water from 1953 to 2019, vegetation composition in 1998 and 2021, groundwater depth from 1996 to 2021, surface water flow from 1953 to 2023, and climate from 1950 to 2023. Tall willow coverage and open water area declined by &gt;90% from 1999 to 2019. Willow height outside the ungulate exclosures declined by more than 75% since the 1990s; yet, within exclosures that were formerly browsed, willow height increased by up to 500%. Tall willow communities have largely been replaced by grasslands. Browsing by elk and moose likely played a pivotal role in triggering a collapse of the beaver–willow state and the formation of an alternative moose–elk–grassland state that appears stable and may be difficult to reverse without direct human action. Restoration efforts will depend on a reduction in herbivory and reconnection of the river with its floodplain.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144224616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wildlife health perceptions and monitoring practices in globally distributed protected areas.","authors":"Diego Montecino-Latorre, Mathieu Pruvot, Sarah H Olson","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The status of health monitoring practices in protected areas (PAs) is largely unknown, but potential gaps could undermine biodiversity conservation at these key sites. There is also a lack of baseline information regarding local perceptions of wildlife, human, and livestock health relevance that could affect health monitoring implementation in PAs. To address these deficiencies, we conducted a web-based survey of data managers from PAs worldwide. Specifically, we assessed perceptions regarding wildlife health and pathogen transmission between wildlife, humans, and livestock; the detection and documentation of unhealthy wildlife (injured, sick, and dead) and domestic animals in PAs; and health data management. Eighty-six out of 128 responses were analyzed. Respondents considered WH relevant to the conservation goals of PAs (97%), and 98% of them confirmed that unhealthy wildlife are encountered. However, >50% and >20% of respondents claimed that injured or sick and dead animals were not recorded, respectively. When these animals were documented, the recording methods and information collected differed. Although respondents considered domestic animal presence common and a conservation concern, these animals or their health status may not be recorded (30% and 74%, respectively). Health data were often stored in a database, but paper forms and spreadsheets were also used. Responses suggested that valuable syndromic wildlife health surveillance data from PAs are not collected or are lost due to inadequate management and their value could be limited by a lack of standardized recording protocols.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e70076"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144224624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of morphological attributes as a driver of trade in poison dart frogs","authors":"Puja Jaichand,&nbsp;David L. Roberts,&nbsp;Iain M. Fraser","doi":"10.1111/cobi.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The unsustainable use of wildlife is a threat to biodiversity on a global scale, and the insatiable demand is driven by the attributes of the species, their parts, and derivatives. However, not all species are equally valued; certain attributes command a higher price. One example is the exotic pet trade in amphibians and reptiles. Poison dart frogs (Dendrobatidae) are particularly in demand owing to their vibrant colors and diurnal behavior. Focusing on the dart frog genus <i>Dendrobates</i>, we examined buyer preference for specific attributes. For this, we collected market data from the online trade of <i>Dendrobates</i> and combined these with morphological data. The attribute data collected from online platforms included species, locale, country sold from, company or platform, origin, sex, size, and age. These data were combined with morphological attribute data for each species and locale. We used hedonic price regression analysis to ascertain whether the selected attributes influenced the price of dart frogs. Species, age, region sold from, market rarity, head color, and trunk colors were all predictors of price. With such knowledge, it may be possible to prioritize those species in particular demand to increase the economic return to range states and local communities through livelihood initiatives. Further, it may be possible to anticipate the value of newly described species and identify those that may become threatened through unsustainable trade.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.70061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144224595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}