Predators Reduce Extinction Risk in Noisy Metapopulations [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Spatial structure across fragmented landscapes can enhance regional population persistence by promoting local "rescue effects." In small, vulnerable populations, where chance or random events between individuals may have disproportionately large effects on species interactions, such local processes are particularly important.
Bull, J, Bonsall, M
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Chemical antipredator defence is linked to higher extinction risk [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Many attributes of species may be linked to contemporary extinction risk, though some such traits remain untested despite suggestions that they may be important.
Kevin Arbuckle
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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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Modeling the extinction risk of European butterflies and odonates [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Insect populations have become increasingly threatened during the last decades due to climate change and landuse intensification. Species characteristics driving these threats remain poorly understood.
Sophia Franke +3 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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Linking extinction risk to the economic and nutritional value of sharks in small‐scale fisheries [PDF]
Conserv BiolAndrew J. Temple +7 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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