Dynamics of extinction debt across five taxonomic groups

Nature Communications

Volumn 7, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Halley, John M ^a   Monokrousos, Nikolaos ^a   Mazaris, Antonios D ^b   Newmark, William D ^c   Vokou, Despoina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION; HABITAT LOSS; HALF LIFE; MAMMAL; META-ANALYSIS; PLANT; REPTILE;

BIRD; HABITAT; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; LEISURE; MAMMAL; META ANALYSIS; REPTILE; SPECIES; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA;

ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HALF-LIFE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84979640744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12283     Document Type: Article

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