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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Red‐list status and extinction risk of the world's whales, dolphins, and porpoises
Conservation Biology, 2023 To understand the scope and scale of the loss of biodiversity, tools are required that can be applied in a standardized manner to all species globally, spanning realms from land to the open ocean.
G. Braulik +9 more
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A global ecological signal of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates. [PDF]
Conserv Biol, 2022 To determine the distribution and causes of extinction threat across functional groups of terrestrial vertebrates, we assembled an ecological trait data set for 18,016 species of terrestrial vertebrates and utilized phylogenetic comparative methods to ...
Munstermann MJ +6 more
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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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Inferring the extinction risk of marine fish to inform global conservation priorities. [PDF]
PLoS BiolLoiseau N +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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Matrix condition mediates the effects of habitat fragmentation on species extinction risk. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2022 Habitat loss is the leading cause of the global decline in biodiversity, but the influence of human pressure within the matrix surrounding habitat fragments remains poorly understood. Here, we measure the relationship between fragmentation (the degree of
Ramírez-Delgado JP +7 more
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Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species
Conservation Letters, 2022 Newly discovered species are often threatened with extinction but in many cases have received limited conservation effort. To guide future conservation, it is important to determine the extinction risk of newly described species.
Jiajia Liu +3 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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