Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species

Abstract Newly discovered species are often threatened with extinction but in many cases have received limited conservation effort. To guide future conservation, it is important to determine the extinction risk of newly described species. Here, we test how time since formal description of a species...

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Main Authors: Jiajia Liu, Ferry Slik, Shilu Zheng, David B. Lindenmayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-05-01
Series:Conservation Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12876