Extinction rates overestimated: study

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

Ecologists routinely overestimate the rate at which animal and plant species go extinct as their habitat is destroyed because a widely used calculation method is flawed, a Canadian researcher argues.

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