• DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.1101101
Corpus ID: 30713492

Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis

@article{Koh2004SpeciesCA,
  title={Species Coextinctions and the Biodiversity Crisis},
  author={L. P. Koh and R. Dunn and N. Sodhi and R. Colwell and H. C. Proctor and V. Smith},
  journal={Science},
  year={2004},
  volume={305},
  pages={1632 - 1634}
}

L. P. Koh, R. Dunn, +3 authors V. Smith

Published 2004

Medicine, Biology

Science

To assess the coextinction of species (the loss of a species upon the loss of another), we present a probabilistic model, scaled with empirical data. The model examines the relationship between coextinction levels (proportion of species extinct) of affiliates and their hosts across a wide range of coevolved interspecific systems: pollinating Ficus wasps and Ficus, parasites and their hosts, butterflies and their larval host plants, and ant butterflies and their host ants. Applying a nomographic… CONTINUE READING

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