In the Green List framework Article Quantifying species recovery and conservation success to dev...
, a timeframe of 100 years is proposed to evaluate the recovery potential of species.Conservation gain is evaluated over the greatest of 3 generations or 50 years. However, what if 3 generations (future gain) are longer than 100 years (future recovery)? This (3 generations greater than 100 years) is the case for longer lived slower growing species.
As we have such an incomplete picture of the worlds species, could future recovery be the greatest of 5 generations or 100 years? Is there an upper time limit that we can reasonably use for future recovery?
Definitions from Article Quantifying species recovery and conservation success to dev...
Conservation gain: “A suitable time frame for assessing conservation dependence and gain is 3 generations or 10 years, whichever is longer, consistent with the current Red Listing process and providing a realistic time scale for incentivizing conservation action.”
Recovery potential: “setting an aspirational yet achievable vision for the recovery of a species, estimating the maximum plausible improvement that could be achieved in occupancy, viability and functionality across the (indigenous and projected) range of the species, given its life history and habitat characteristics, and the likely land and resource use and recovery technology over the next 100 years.”
species recovery depends climatic parameters and environmental consideration with specific species tolerance
The study, the teams and the parameters should be species specific. Projected figures can be helpful for long-lived species.
Length of reproductive cycle, gestation period should be studied for each species.
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