Identifying species threatened with local extinction in tropical reef fisheries using historical reconstruction of species occurrence
Identifying the species that are at risk of local extinction in highly diverse ecosystems is a big challenge for conservation science.
Assessments of species status are costly and difficult to implement in developing countries with diverse ecosystems due to a lack of species-specific surveys, species-specific data, and other resources. Numerous techniques are devised to determine the threat status of species based on the availability of data and budgetary limits. On this basis, we developed a framework that compared occurrence data of historically exploited reef species in Kenya from existing disparate data sources.