Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore
@article{Brook2003CatastrophicEF, title={Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore}, author={B. Brook and N. Sodhi and P. Ng}, journal={Nature}, year={2003}, volume={424}, pages={420-426} }
The looming mass extinction of biodiversity in the humid tropics is a major concern for the future, yet most reports of extinctions in these regions are anecdotal or conjectural, with a scarcity of robust, broad-based empirical data. Here we report on local extinctions among a wide range of terrestrial and freshwater taxa from Singapore (540 km2) in relation to habitat loss exceeding 95% over 183 years. Substantial rates of documented and inferred extinctions were found, especially for forest… CONTINUE READING
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