Five threat factors
How important is each of the five threat factors to the species?
For this prototype we illustrate the concept of apportioning threats by their importance to the species, but the values shown are only for illustration. Once fully implemented, the sliders would automatically adjust to sum to 1 and would only be editable by authorized users.
Expert eliciation is used to adjust the sliders
as needed to represent the relative importance of each
of the five factors.
Detailed threat table
(from the 1998 recovery plan)
Threats description
Recovery actions stepdown
1: Nesting environment
2: Marine environment
3: Ensure proper care in captivity
4: International cooperation
Threat and demographic status
-0.5
Threat score
0
Demography score
We have developed a method to score the status
of threats a species faces and the species' biological
(i.e., demographic) status. The scores can range from
-1 (threats are worsening / demographic status is
deteriorating) to +1 (threats are ameliorated /
demographic status is improving). Here we show how
these scores can be presented to provide a quick
overview of status, but these are not real estimates
of the species' status. See <insert preprint
link>.
By extracting past scores we can better
understand how the species has fared - in terms
of both threat and demographic changes - over an
extended period. These data are for illustration
only, but will provide much-needed information
when dynamic recovery plans are fully implemented.
Status description
FWS section 7 consultations through time
FWS section 7 consultations by work type
FWS section 7 consultations by agency
Anticipated costs
A significant challenge of static recovery plans is that they are rarely updated. The image below shows the first page of the recovery team's cost estimates for 1998-2003, but we (collectively) have no way to assess the gap between needs and what was actually budgeted.
Estimated recovery year
NA