Unrealistic assumptions invalidate extinction estimates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages

  Feeley, Kenneth J ^a   Silman, Miles R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; LETTER; NEAR EXTINCT SPECIES; PHYTOGEOGRAPHY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 58149496169     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808335106     Document Type: Letter

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