The Parasite Extinction Assessment & Red List: an open-source, online biodiversity database for neglected symbionts

摘要: Parasite conservation is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of ecology, epidemiology, parasitology, and public health. The overwhelming diversity parasitic life on earth, recent work showing that parasites other symbionts face severe extinction risk, necessitates infrastructure for parasite assessments. Here, we describe release Extinction Assessment & Red List (PEARL) version 1.0, an open-access database assessments distributional data almost 500 macroparasitic invertebrates. current approach to vulnerability assessment based range shifts loss from climate change, will be expanded as additional (e.g., host-parasite associations coextinction risk) consolidated in PEARL. web architecture also open-source, scalable, extensible, making PEARL template more efficient red listing high-diversity, data-deficient groups. Future iterations include new functionality, including user-friendly open repository automated re-listing.