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Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey
Red List Workshop: from left to right, Reşit Akçakaya,
Uğur Zeydanlı, Özge Özden, Yahya Emin Demirci,
Murat Telli, Chris van Swaay, Martin Wiemers, Rudi
Verovnik, Can Bilgin, Evrim Karaçetin, Alper Ertürk.
Table 3. Red List Working
Group members
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IUCN’s 2001 Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1 at the
regional level.
The Red List Workshop took place on 10-12 August 2009, at the
Middle East Technical University, Ankara. A wide range of national and
international experts on red listing and butterflies were invited: table 3
presents the final working group members.
During the three day workshop, rapid assessments of 90 species which
presented a range of different problems were carried out:
- globally threatened species;
- species threatened in Europe;
- Turkish endemics;
- species rare in Turkey but common elsewhere;
- species with a complex taxonomy (from the subgenus Agrodiaetus).
The workshop covered the steps of calculating the EOO and AOO using
RAMAS Red List Professional software module Spatial Analysis, and
used the available literature and expert knowledge present to understand
each species’ status, habitat preferences, and identify potential threats
(See the Glossary of IUCN terminology in the Appendices and the
IUCN guidelines at www.iucnredlist.org for detailed explanations of the
terms EOO and AOO).
After the workshop, the remaining species were assessed by the
principal authors and a draft threatened species list was prepared.
These rapid assessments identified the LC (Least Concern) and NA
(Not Applicable) species and assigned an initial threat category to the
remainder.
Species assessments – AOO scale correction
The rapid assessment process had identified a group of 53 ‘borderline’
threatened species which have relatively restricted or sparse distributions
in Turkey and for which the AOO might thus be critical factor in
deciding their threat category. The AOO is calculated by multiplying the
number of localities at which a species has been recorded by the locality
size (area). However, although each butterfly record was allocated to a
10x10 km square, this did not necessarily mean that it was likely to be
Name From Role in workshop
H. Reşit Akçakaya
PhD
Professor, Stony Brook University, Dept of Ecology & Evolution, New York, USA
Chair, Standards & Petitions Sub-Committee of the IUCN SSC Red List Committee
Facilitator
Dr Can Bilgin Dept of Biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara Chairman
Chris van Swaay De Vlinderstichting, Netherlands; senior author of the 1999 and 2010 European
Red Lists of Butterflies
Expert
Dr Martin Wiemers Dept of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle
(Germany); expert on the Polyommatus subgenus Agrodiaetus, joint lead author of
the Revised List of European Butterflies 2010; co-compiler of the European Red List of
Butterflies 2010
Expert
Dr Rudi Verovnik Dept of Biological Sciences, Ljubljana University (Slovenia); joint lead author of the
Revised List of European Butterflies 2010, and co-compiler of the European Red List of
Butterflies 2010
Expert
Dr Özge Özden Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies at European University of Lefke,
Cyprus
Butterfly specialist
Dr Mecit Vural Botanist, Dept of Biology, Gazi University, Ankara; co-author of the Red List of
Threatened Plants in Turkey
Botanist
Dr Evrim Karaçetin Butterfly specialist, Erciyes University, Kayseri Butterfly specialist
Hilary Welch Butterfly Project Manager, Senior Conservation Officer, DKM, Ankara Project Manager
Alper Ertürk Biodiversity Data Manager and GIS specialist, DKM Ankara Data Manager
Didem Ambarlı Grassland Conservation Programme Coordinator, DKM, Ankara Butterfly watcher
Adnan Ataç Butterfly watcher, Ankara Butterfly watcher
Bahar Bilgen Butterfly watcher, Istanbul Butterfly watcher
Yahya Emin Demirci Butterfly watcher, Tokat Butterfly watcher
Ümit Durdu Biology student, Kars Butterfly watcher
Süleyman Ekşioğlu Bird Research Society (KAD), Ankara Butterfly watcher
Seda Emel Tek Biology graduate, Ankara Butterfly watcher
Murat Telli PhD. in Biology, Ankara Translator
Karaçetin, E. and Welch, H.J. (2011). Red Book of Butterflies in Turkey. Ankara, Turkey: Doğa Koruma Merkezi. Available from: [www.dkm.org.tr]