A comparison of current and reconstructed historic geographic range sizes as predictors of extinction risk in Australian mammals

Biological Conservation

Volumn 158, Issue , 2013, Pages 196-204

  Hanna, Emily ^a   Cardillo, Marcel ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparative models; Geographic range size; IUCN Red List; Latent extinction risk

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EXTINCTION RISK; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MAMMAL; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; RECONSTRUCTION; RED LIST; VULNERABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84870184252     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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