Pattern, process, inference and prediction in extinction biology.
Biol Lett
; 13(1)2017 01.
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ABSTRACT
Extinction is a key feature of the evolutionary history of life, and assessments of extinction risk are essential for the effective protection of biodiversity. The goal in assembling this special issue of Biology Letters was to highlight problems and questions at the research frontier of extinction biology, with an emphasis on recent developments in the methodology of inferring the patterns and processes of extinction from a background of often noisy and sparse data. In selecting topics, we sought to illustrate how extinction is not simply a self-evident phenomenon, but the subject of a dynamic and quantitatively rigorous field of natural science, with practical applications to conservation.
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Assunto principal:
Evolução Biológica
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Extinção Biológica
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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En
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Biol Lett
Assunto da revista:
BIOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2017
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Article
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Austrália