Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore

@article{Brook2003CatastrophicEF,
  title={Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore},
  author={Barry W. Brook and Navjot S. Sodhi and Peter L. K. Ng},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2003},
  volume={424},
  pages={420-426}
}

• Barry W. Brook, Navjot S. Sodhi, Peter L. K. Ng
• Published 2003 in Nature
• DOI:10.1038/nature01795

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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