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Alien species as a driver of recent extinctions

We assessed the prevalence of alien species as a driver of recent extinctions in five major taxa (plants, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals), using data from the IUCN Red List. Our results show that alien species are the second most common threat associated with species that have gone complete...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Bellard, Céline, Cassey, Phillip, Blackburn, Tim M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780541/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26888913
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0623
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