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Large numbers of vertebrates began rapid population decline in the late 19th century.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 6 Dec 2016
Li Haipeng, Xiang-Yu Jinggong, Dai Guangyi, Gu Zhili, Ming Chen, Yang Zongfeng, Ryder Oliver A, Li Wen-Hsiung, Fu Yun-Xin, Zhang Ya-Ping
Abstract excerpt
Accelerated losses of biodiversity are a hallmark of the current era. Large declines of population size have been widely observed and currently 22,176 species are threatened by extinction. The time at which a threatened species began rapid population decline (RPD) and the rate of RPD provide important clues about the driving forces of population decline and anticipated extinction time. However, these parameters...
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