Drivers of extinction: the case of Azorean beetles

Oceanic islands host a disproportionately high fraction of endangered or recently extinct endemic species. We report on species extinctions among endemic Azorean beetles following 97% habitat loss since AD 1440. We infer extinctions from historical and contemporary records and examine the influence...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Terzopoulou, Sofia, Rigal, François, Whittaker, Robert J., Borges, Paulo A. V., Triantis, Kostas A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2015
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Conservation Biology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528476/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26063753
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0273
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