QUANTIFYING THREATS TO IMPERILED SPECIES IN THE UNITED STATES

@article{Wilcove1998QUANTIFYINGTT,
  title={QUANTIFYING THREATS TO IMPERILED SPECIES IN THE UNITED STATES},
  author={David S Wilcove and David E. Rothstein and Jason Dubow and Ali F. Phillips and Elizabeth Losos},
  journal={BioScience},
  year={1998},
  volume={48},
  pages={607-615}
}
Biologists are nearly unanimous in their belief that humanity is in the process of extirpating a significant portion of the earth's spe­ cies. The ways in which we are doing so reflect the magnitude and scale of human enterprise. Everything from highway construction to cattle ranch­ ing to leaky bait buckets has been implicated in the demise or endan­ germent of particular species. Ac­ cording to Wilson (1992), most of these activities fall into four major categories, which he terms "the mind… 
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