Are specialists at risk under environmental change? Neoecological, paleoecological and phylogenetic approaches
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Are specialists at risk under environmental change? Neoecological, paleoecological and phylogenetic approaches
The question 'what renders a species extinction prone' is crucial to biologists. Ecological specialization has been suggested as a major constraint impeding the response of species to environmental changes. Most neoecological studies indicate that specialists suffer declines under recent environmental changes. This was confirmed by many paleoecological studies investigating longer-term survival...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology Letters
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1461-023X,1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01336.x