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Are extinction opinions extinct?

2017-07-18

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Extinction models vary in the information they require, the simplest considering the rate of certain sightings only. More complicated methods include uncertain sightings and allow for variation in the reliability of uncertain sightings. Generally extinction models require expert opinion, either as a prior belief that a species is extinct, or to establish the quality of a sighting record, or both. Is this subjectiv...

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Literature Corpus work: 107d7956-e6d6-57af-b44f-c3c7518b9969
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3095v1

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