More reptile species may be at risk of extinction than previously thought

More reptile species may be at risk of extinction than previously thought

The iconic Red List of Threatened Species, published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), identifies species at risk of extinction. A study in PLOS Biology publishing May 26 by Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and colleagues presents a novel machine learning tool for assessing extinction risk, and then uses this tool to show that reptile species that are unlisted due to …

More reptile species may be at risk of extinction than previously thought

Machine learning tool estimates extinction risk for species previously unprioritized for conservation.