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dc.contributor.author | Brook, B. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sodhi, N. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Ng, P. | - |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Nature, 2003; 424(6947):420-423 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0028-0836 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1476-4687 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/34286 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The looming mass extinction of biodiversity in the humid tropics is a major concern for the future1, 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 specialists, with the greatest proportion of extinct taxa (34–87%) in butterflies, fish, birds and mammals. Observed extinctions were generally fewer, but inferred losses often higher, in vascular plants, phasmids, decapods, amphibians and reptiles (5–80%). Forest reserves comprising only 0.25% of Singapore's area now harbour over 50% of the residual native biodiversity. Extrapolations of the observed and inferred local extinction data, using a calibrated species–area model7, 8, 9, imply that the current unprecedented rate of habitat destruction in Southeast Asia10 will result in the loss of 13–42% of regional populations over the next century, at least half of which will represent global species extinctions. | - |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Barry W. Brook, Navjot S. Sodhi and Peter K. L. Ng | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Nature Publishing Group | - |
dc.rights | © 2003 Nature Publishing Group | - |
dc.source.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature01795 | - |
dc.subject | Animals | - |
dc.subject | Trees | - |
dc.subject | Conservation of Natural Resources | - |
dc.subject | Ecosystem | - |
dc.subject | Population Dynamics | - |
dc.subject | Species Specificity | - |
dc.subject | Singapore | - |
dc.title | Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore | - |
dc.type | Journal article | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/nature01795 | - |
pubs.publication-status | Published | - |
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