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Quantifying the Extent of North American Mammal Extinction Relative to the Pre-Anthropogenic Baseline

Earth has experienced five major extinction events in the past 450 million years. Many scientists suggest we are now witnessing a sixth, driven by human impacts. However, it has been difficult to quantify the real extent of the current extinction episode, either for a given taxonomic group at the co...

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Autores principales: Carrasco, Marc A., Barnosky, Anthony D., Graham, Russell W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2789409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20016820
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008331