Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss: Comment

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 761-763

  Axelsen, Jacob Bock ^a   Roll, Uri ^a   Stone, Lewi ^a   Solow, Andrew ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOTE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876140905     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0047.1     Document Type: Note

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