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Conservation Status Assessment ***** Flashcards

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Define the purpose of the Conservation Status Assessment (On the exam):

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To evaluate the potential extinction or extirpation risk of elements of biodiversity (E.g., Species, community or ecosystem), including regional extinction or extirpation.

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What is the first step of species conservation?

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Conservation Status Assessments

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What are the 2 main processes of the Conservation status Assessment?

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  1. Prioritize Effort
  2. Determine legal status under SAR legislation
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Who completes Status Assessments (3)?

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  1. Conservation Data Centers (NatureServe)
  2. National General Status Ranking Working Group
  3. IUCN
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What does the IUCN stand for?

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International Union for the Conservation of Nature

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What type of list does the IUCN produce?

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Red List

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Who recommends legal status in Canada?

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1) COSEWIC
2) Provincial Endangered Species Committees

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What are the two aspects to determining an At-Risk Species?

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Definitions & Criteria

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Are definitions in legislation qualitative or quantitative?

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Qualitative

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What conditions does quantitative criteria consider?

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  1. Number of occurrences
  2. Population size
  3. Range extent
  4. Area of occupancy
  5. Long-term trend
  6. Short-term trend
  7. Threats
  8. Environmental specificity
  9. Intrinsic Vulnerability
  10. # of protected and managed occurrences
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What is the purpose of the Conservation Data Centre (CDC)?

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To assemble and provide information and services to sustain Manitoba’s natural biological diversity.

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What is the process of evaluation of the CDC?

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  1. Evaluation
  2. Research, Inventory and Monitoring
  3. Status Assessment
  4. Response and Recovery
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What is NatureServe?

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A Network connecting science with conservation, they have done conservation assessment on over 70,000 species, all of this data is available. This is a streamlined method of researching species.

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Where does NatureServe have designation?

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NatureServe’s network includes member programs in all 50 US states, the Canadian provinces and the Yukon Territory, and in many other countries across the Western Hemisphere.

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KNOW HOW A SPECIES IS DESIGNATED****

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Figures and Charts Visio sheet

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How are Conservation Ranks assigned?

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Assigned to species and communities as a way of assessing priorities for inventory (including identifying knowledge gaps), protection, and management.

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Do Conservation Ranks have legal standing?

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No

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18
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Do CDCs used Conservation Ranks?

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Yes

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19
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What are the 3 levels of ranks?

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GRANKS - Global
NRANKS - National
SRANKS - Subnational

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How are criteria ranked for CDCs? (6)

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  • # of occurrences known or believed extant
  • Viability, condition, and quality of extant occurrences
  • Abundance
  • Threats
  • Trends in population range
  • Fragility
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What is the significance of a threat?

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The degree to which the species is directly or indirectly threatened in the area of intersect and is based on:
1. The interaction between expected scope (proportion of occupied area affected)
2. Severity (percent reduction in population) and
3. Timing

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How is the significant of a threat determined (2)?

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Scope (proportion affected)
Severity (Percent reduction)

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23
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What are the 4 threat classifications?

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Very High (70-100%)
High (31-70%)
Medium (11-30%)
Low (1-10%)

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What is the main intent of the Provincial SRANK’s?

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To prioritize efforts

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25
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Do SRANKs have legal binding authorities?

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No!!!

26
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What are the 14 SRANK definitions?

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  1. S1
  2. S2
  3. S3
  4. S4
  5. S5
  6. S#S# (Numeric Range)
  7. SH (Historical)
  8. SU (Unrankable)
  9. SX (Extripated / Extinct)
  10. S? (Unranked)
  11. B (Breeding)
  12. N (Nonbreeding)
  13. SA (Accidental)
  14. SE (Exotic)
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What does S1 mean?

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Very Rare

28
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What does S2 mean?

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Rare

29
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What does S3 mean?

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Uncommon

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What does S4 mean?

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Widespread, abundant

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What does S5 mean?

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Demonstrably widespread, abundant, and secure?

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What does the NRANKS consider?

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Ranking the rarity of a species of a national level.
Wild Species is done every 5 years to determine what the national ranking should be, sometimes they discover errors.

33
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What is the first step of species conservation?

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Status Assessments

34
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What are the 5 Purposes of NRANKS?

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  1. Integrates Information
  2. Alerts Canadians
  3. Summarizes
  4. Identifies the gaps in our knowledge
  5. Establishes local networks
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What is the General Status (GS) program?

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A nation-wide process to compile available information on all wild species to identify as at risk, sensitive to information, are secure, and are poorly known.

36
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When was general status reporting agreed to?

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1996 in the “Accord of the Protection of Species at Risk in Canada”

37
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When was the first national report from General Status reporting delivered?

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2000

38
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Explain the General Status reporting process (Circular):

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  1. All jurisdictions assess status within their boundaries
  2. Jurisdictions use information for management and provide ranks to national roll-up
  3. Compilation of provincial / territorial ranks, and derivation of National Ranks
  4. Collection of available information and knowledge.
39
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Which reporting process is circular and runs every 5 years?

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General Status Reporting

40
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Describe the process of reviewing Preliminary Assessments:

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Professional Biologists, Academics, and Naturalists review & debate.
Final decisions on status and justification rests with the government agency.

41
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Define the Element of Occurrence:

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Is an area of land and / or water in which a species or natural community is or was present. This can be done for a species, community, etc.

42
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Provide an example of an element of occurrence:

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If a bird simply lands on a tree, that doesn’t make a tree an element occurrence. But if there is a nest in this tree, then it would be considered an element occurrence because it is significant to the species’ behaviours.

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Why are EO important?

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An EO is a location important to the conservation of the species or community.

44
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What does EOR stand for?

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Element Occurrence Record (EOR)

45
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What can data inputted into a data-base be referred to as?

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Data Management Tool

46
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What are the 2 main components of a Data Management Tool?

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  1. Mappable feature
  2. Associated data in tabular form
47
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What are 3 kinds of conceptual features in a data management tool?

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  1. Point
  2. Line
  3. Polygon
48
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What are 2 levels of uncertainty with Data Management Tools?

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  1. Mapping Accuracy
  2. Extent of Occurrence
49
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Why should we be concerned about Data Sensitivity?

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  • Some species commercially exploited
  • Sensitive life cycles or microhabitats
  • Deliberate Eradication
  • Vandalism
  • Etc.
50
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If a species is so sensitive, why release the information to all?

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  • For adequate protection
  • Recovery and management
  • Multi-jurisdictional planning
51
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What are the 2 primary ways of dealing with data sensitivity concerns when releasing rare species information?

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  1. Not revealing the species
  2. Not revealing precise location
52
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Why is it important to not reveal the rare species name when dealing with sensitive data?

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They don’t need to know whats there, they just need to know to avoid the area.

53
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Why is it important to not reveal the exact location of the species when dealing with sensitive data?

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So people know to avoid a particular area.

54
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What is COSEWIC provided with when doing status assessments?

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With detailed tables of locations with GPS coordiantes.

55
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What is the CDC?

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Conservation Data Centre, a central data bank on Manitoba’s plants, animals and vegetation communities.

56
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What is the primary goal of the CDC?

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To track priority species, ecological communities and natural areas in order to help guide biodiversity conservation activities by public and private sector conservation organizations

57
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What is done in the CDC process of “Research, Inventory, and Monitoring”?

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Assemble and organize information, ecological communities and natural areas of conservation concern.

58
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What is done in the CDC process of “Status Assessment”?

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Make information on species, communities and natural areas accessible for ecologically-sound land use planning.

59
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What is done in the CDC process of “Response and Recovery”?

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To track priority species, ecological communities and natural areas.

60
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What is done in the CDC process of “Evaluation”?

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To maintain a central respiratory of natural heritage data.

61
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What are the 4 indicators used in Provincial Ranking Criteria?

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A, B, C and D

62
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BE ABLE TO DRAW THE Provincial Ranking Criteria Table**

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Figures and Charts in Visio

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