Publication Date:
2013-01-19
Description:
A paper by Wearn et al. (Reports, 13 July 2012, p. 228) yields new insights on extinction debt. However, it leaves out the area dependence of the relaxation process. We show that this is not warranted on theoretical or observational grounds and that it may lead to erroneous conservation recommendations.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Halley, John M -- Iwasa, Yoh -- Vokou, Despoina -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Jan 18;339(6117):271. doi: 10.1126/science.1231438.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Applications and Technology, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece. jhalley@cc.uoi.gr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23329033" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Conservation of Natural Resources
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*Ecosystem
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*Extinction, Biological
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*Trees
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*Vertebrates
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
