Quantification of habitat fragmentation reveals extinction risk in terrestrial mammals [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017 Although habitat fragmentation is often assumed to be a primary driver of extinction, global patterns of fragmentation and its relationship to extinction risk have not been consistently quantified for any major animal taxon.
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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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Verifying the predicted risk of extinction based on ecological characteristics
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 Red List status of species should reflect species extinction risk. Because data are limited and species response has a time lag, species may be threatened by extinction even if they are not Red‐Listed.
Atte Komonen, Janne S. Kotiaho
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Accelerated mass extinction in an isolated biota during Late Devonian climate changes
Scientific Reports, 2021 The fossil record can illuminate factors that contribute to extinction risk during times of global environmental disturbance; for example, inferred thermal tolerance was an important predictor of extinction during several mass extinctions that ...
Jaleigh Q. Pier +4 more
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Extinction risk of soil biota [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2015 AbstractNo species lives on earth forever. Knowing when and why species go extinct is crucial for a complete understanding of the consequences of anthropogenic activity, and its impact on ecosystem functioning. Even though soil biota play a key role in maintaining the functioning of ecosystems, the vast majority of existing studies focus on aboveground
Stavros D. Veresoglou +2 more
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Areal sizes of high, intermediate, low and total suitable habitats are correlated to the global extinction risk for mammals [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2014 The relationships between areal sizes of high, intermediate, low, and total sum of habitats with low, intermediate and high suitability habitat ranges, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) threatened status of global ...
Chen You-Hua
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Trees are fundamental for Earth’s biodiversity as primary producers and ecosystem engineers and are responsible for many of nature’s contributions to people. Yet, many tree species at present are threatened with extinction by human activities.
Sandro Valerio Silva +8 more
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Conservation genetics – science in the service of nature
Acta Biologica, 2020 Conservation genetics is a subdicipline of conservation biology which deals with the extinction risk and many other problems of nature conservation by using genetic tools and techniques.
Cansel Taşkın, Jakub Skorupski
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Proceedings of the Mongolian Biodiversity Databank Workshop: Assessing the Conservation Status of Mongolian Mammals and Fishes: III – Fishes: Assessment Results and Threats [PDF]
Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2005 The Mongolian Biodiversity Databank Workshop was held at the National University of Mongolia and Hustai National Park from 1 st October to 4 th November, 2005.
Joanne F. Ocock +3 more
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Hurst Coefficient in long time series of population size: Model for two plant populations with different reproductive strategies [PDF]
, 2010 Can the fractal dimension of fluctuations in population size be used to estimate extinction risk? The problem with estimating this fractal dimension is that the lengths of the time series are usually too short for conclusive results.
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