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Rarity Value and Species Extinction: The Anthropogenic Allee Effect

Standard economic theory predicts that exploitation alone is unlikely to result in species extinction because of the escalating costs of finding the last individuals of a declining species. We argue that the human predisposition to place exaggerated value on rarity fuels disproportionate exploitatio...

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Autores principales: Courchamp, Franck, Angulo, Elena, Rivalan, Philippe, Hall, Richard J, Signoret, Laetitia, Bull, Leigh, Meinard, Yves
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1661683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17132047
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040415