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      A global analysis of traits predicting species sensitivity to habitat fragmentation : Species sensitivity

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              Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal species.

              Many large animal species have a high risk of extinction. This is usually thought to result simply from the way that species traits associated with vulnerability, such as low reproductive rates, scale with body size. In a broad-scale analysis of extinction risk in mammals, we find two additional patterns in the size selectivity of extinction risk. First, impacts of both intrinsic and environmental factors increase sharply above a threshold body mass around 3 kilograms. Second, whereas extinction risk in smaller species is driven by environmental factors, in larger species it is driven by a combination of environmental factors and intrinsic traits. Thus, the disadvantages of large size are greater than generally recognized, and future loss of large mammal biodiversity could be far more rapid than expected.
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                Journal
                Global Ecology and Biogeography
                Global Ecol. Biogeogr.
                Wiley-Blackwell
                1466822X
                January 2017
                January 23 2017
                : 26
                : 1
                : 115-127
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                10.1111/geb.12509
                788c9cb4-afbd-4a5e-9b6b-92920d2a7586
                © 2017

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1

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