Loris André will be talking at the Student Conference on Conservation Science held at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. The conference is designed for early career conservation researchers from biological, environmental and geography departments of universities, as well as conservation and resource management agencies.

Loris will discuss his co-authored paper with Ben Groom and Frank Venmans on the cost of a statistical species. A major contribution of the paper is to redefine and quantify the relationship between the size of a natural habitat and the risk of extinction of a species, for a given time horizon (see Figure 1 below). To date, the literature has relied heavily on the species-area relationship to quantify extinction risk. The authors go further, using data from the IUCN RedList and modeling a Markov process (see Figure 2 below). This conference is thus an opportunity to anchor this paper in the ecological literature on conservation, beyond its contribution to economic science, by benefiting from discussions with numerous specialists on the topic.