Background Extinction Rates
Background Extinction Rates is a metric that quantifies the average rate of species loss over geological time periods under normal ecological and evolutionary conditions, excluding mass extinction events.
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Mass Extinctions in the Marine Fossil Record
David M. Raup, J. John Sepkoski · Science · 1982 · 1.8K citations
Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction
Jurriaan M. de Vos, Lucas Joppa, John L. Gittleman et al. · Conservation Biology · 2014 · 671 citations
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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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1.9K citations
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
London, United Kingdom
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293 citations
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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360 citations
Museum für Naturkunde
Berlin, Germany
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5 publications
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Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Berkeley, United States
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Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
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PNAS · 8 publications · 1.6K citations
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