Species coextinctions and the biodiversity crisis

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5690, 2004, Pages 1632-1634

  Koh, Lian Pin ^a,f   Dunn, Robert R ^b,g   Sodhi, Navjot S ^a   Colwell, Robert K ^c   Proctor, Heather C ^d   Smith, Vincent S ^e,h  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBABILITY;

NOMOGRAPHIC METHOD; POLLINATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; EXTINCTION RISK; MODEL; PROBABILITY;

ANT; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUTTERFLY; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FICUS; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; LOUSE; NEMATODE; NOMOGRAM; PIGEON; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPECIES COEXTINCTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WASP; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; MATHEMATICS; MITE; PARASITE; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COLUMBA; FORMICIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PHTHIRAPTERA; PNEUMOCYSTIS; PRIMATES; VESPIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; BUTTERFLIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FICUS; LICE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MATHEMATICS; MITES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARASITES; PLANTS; PNEUMOCYSTIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WASPS;

EID: 4644278888     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1101101     Document Type: Article

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