Villalobo-Lopez A., Peña C. M., Varas-Myrik A., Pillet M., Jahnsen P., Pliscoff P., Goettsch B., Guerrero P. C., Effects of trade and poaching pressure on extinction risk for cacti in the Atacama Desert, Conservation Biology, 2024, 38(5):e14353, doi: 10.1111/cobi.14353
The authors assess threats to Copiapoa taxa from their distribution and habitat pressures. The analysis compares the importance of trade, illegal plant collection and landscape condition. The results section gives counts for the threat categories.