| Literature DB >> 25578283 |
Austin J Gallagher1, Neil Hammerschlag2, Steven J Cooke3, Daniel P Costa4, Duncan J Irschick5.
Abstract
Timely and proactive wildlife conservation requires strategies for determining which species are most at the greatest threat of extinction. Here, we suggest that evolutionary theory, particularly the concept of specialization, can be a useful tool to inform such assessments and may greatly aid in our ability to predict the vulnerabilities of species to anthropogenic impacts.Keywords: conservation; ecology; extinction; physiology; plasticity; specialization
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Year: 2015 PMID: 25578283 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.12.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Ecol Evol ISSN: 0169-5347 Impact factor: 17.712