Species Extinction Rates Wildly Overstated

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 13:20 in Biology & Nature

A new paper in Nature says the most widely used methods for calculating species extinction rates are "fundamentally flawed" and overestimate extinction rates by as much as 160 percent. read more

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