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Latent extinction risk information


In conservation biology, latent extinction risk is a measure of the potential for a species to become threatened.

Latent risk can most easily be described as the difference, or discrepancy, between the current observed extinction risk of a species (typically as quantified by the IUCN Red List) and the theoretical extinction risk of a species predicted by its biological or life history characteristics.[1]

  1. ^ Cardillo, M.; Mace, G. M.; Gittleman, J. L.; Purvis, A. (2006), "Latent extinction risk and the future battlegrounds of mammal conservation", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103 (11): 4157–61, Bibcode:2006PNAS..103.4157C, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510541103, PMC 1449663, PMID 16537501.

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