Biodiversity - Extinction by numbers

被引：877
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作者：
Pimm, SL
Raven, P
机构：
[1] Columbia Univ, Ctr Environm Res & Conservat, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Missouri Bot Garden, St Louis, MO 63166 USA
来源：
NATURE | 2000年 / 403卷 / 6772期
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D O I：
10.1038/35002708
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
Habitat destruction, especially of the humid forests in the tropics, is the main cause of the species extinctions happening now. New work documents the uneven, highly clumped distribution of vulnerable species on the Earth, and pinpoints 25 so-called ‘biodiversity hotspots’. Seventeen of them are tropical forest areas, and here reduction of natural habitat is disproportionately high. Nonetheless, identification of this pattern should enable resources for conservation to be better focused.
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页码：843 / 845
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