Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2004 Understanding why some species are at high risk of extinction, while others remain relatively safe, is central to the development of a predictive conservation science.
Marcel Cardillo +5 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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Geography of current and future global mammal extinction risk. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Identifying which species are at greatest risk, what makes them vulnerable, and where they are distributed are central goals for conservation science. While knowledge of which factors influence extinction risk is increasingly available for some taxonomic
Ana D Davidson +8 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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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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The perils of picky eating: dietary breadth is related to extinction risk in insectivorous bats. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 Several recent papers evaluate the relationship between ecological characteristics and extinction risk in bats. These studies report that extinction risk is negatively related to geographic range size and positively related to habitat specialization ...
Justin G Boyles, Jonathan J Storm
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