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Predicting the risk of extinction from shared ecological characteristics.

Janne S Kotiaho¹, Veijo Kaitala, Atte Komonen, Jussi Päivinen.

Abstract

Understanding the ultimate causes of population declines and extinction is vital in our quest to stop the currently rampant biodiversity loss. Comparison of ecological characteristics between threatened and nonthreatened species may reveal these ultimate causes. Here, we report an analysis of ecological characteristics of 23 threatened and 72 nonthreatened butterfly species. Our analysis reveals that threatened butterflies are characterized by narrow niche breadth, restricted resource distribution, poor dispersal ability, and short flight period. Based on the characteristics, we constructed an ecological extinction risk rank and predicted which of the currently nonthreatened species are at the highest risk of extinction. Our analysis reveals that two species currently classified as nonthreatened are, in fact, at high risk of extinction, and that the status of a further five species should be reconsidered.

Entities: Disease

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Year: 2005 PMID： 15671171 PMCID： PMC548535 DOI： 10.1073/pnas.0406718102

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN： 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205

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Predicting the risk of extinction from shared ecological characteristics.

1. Rapid responses of British butterflies to opposing forces of climate and habitat change.

2. Extinction risk from climate change.

3. Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore.

4. Habitat conversion and global avian biodiversity loss.

5. Comparative losses of British butterflies, birds, and plants and the global extinction crisis.

6. Conserving tropical nature: current challenges for ecologists.

7. The future of biodiversity.

Review 8. Consequences of changing biodiversity.

9. The current biodiversity extinction event: scenarios for mitigation and recovery.

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