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Extinction risk from climate change [PDF]
Nature, 2004 Climate change over the past approximately 30 years has produced numerous shifts in the distributions and abundances of species and has been implicated in one species-level extinction. Using projections of species' distributions for future climate scenarios, we assess extinction risks for sample regions that cover some 20% of the Earth's terrestrial ...
Thomas C.D. +18 more
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Can Macroevolution Inform Contemporary Extinction Risk? [PDF]
Ecol LettCurrent global changes are driving many species towards extinction, making the early detection of threatened species a priority for efficient conservation actions. However, the threat status of many species remains unknown due to insufficient data on updated distributions, population sizes and population trends, and using ecological indicator traits ...
Weil SS +4 more
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Quantifying and categorising national extinction-risk footprints [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Biodiversity, essential to delivering the ecosystem services that support humanity, is under threat. Projections show that loss of biodiversity, specifically increases in species extinction, is likely to continue without significant intervention.
Amanda Irwin +5 more
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A global ecological signal of extinction risk in marine ray-finned fishes (class Actinopterygii) [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023 Many marine fish species are experiencing population declines, but their extinction risk profiles are largely understudied in comparison to their terrestrial vertebrate counterparts.
Trevor M. Bak +5 more
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Spatial heterogeneity of extinction risk for flowering plants in China [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUnderstanding the variability of extinction risk and its potential drivers across different spatial extents is crucial to revealing the underlying processes of biodiversity loss and sustainability. However, in countries with high climatic and topographic
Lina Zhao +6 more
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Digging the pupfish out of its hole: risk analyses to guide harvest of Devils Hole pupfish for captive breeding. [PDF]
, 2014 The Devils Hole pupfish is restricted to one wild population in a single aquifer-fed thermal pool in the Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Since 1995 the pupfish has been in a nearly steady decline, where it was perched on the brink of extinction ...
Beissinger, Steven
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Extinction and morphospace occupation: A critical review
Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023 Processes of extinction, especially selectivity, can be studied using the distribution of species in morphospace. Random extinction reduces the number of species but has little effect on the range of morphologies or ecological roles in a fauna or flora ...
P. David Polly
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Effects of evolutionary history and life form on extinction risk of Chinese flowering plants
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 There has been much debate on what, including evolutionary history, ecological processes or environmental change, might contribute to species extinctions.
Shengchun Li, Minhua Zhang, Fangliang He
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Predicting extinctions with species distribution models
Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023 Predictions of species-level extinction risk from climate change are mostly based on species distribution models (SDMs). Reviewing the literature, we summarise why the translation of SDM results to extinction risk is conceptually and methodologically ...
Damaris Zurell +3 more
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Extinction risk in vascular plants and vertebrates is negatively correlated with family size
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Understanding the pattern of species extinction risk is key to biodiversity conservation. Previous studies showed extinction risk correlates strongly with taxon species richness. However, there is no consistent conclusion to this hypothesis, and patterns
Quansheng Fu +12 more
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