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Extinction Dynamics

Extinction Dynamics is a macroevolutionary process within the broader category of population and community dynamics that specifically characterizes the temporal and spatial patterns, mechanisms, and probabilistic rates by which species or lineages cease to exist across metapopulations, ecological patches, or paleobiological assemblages over geological or ecological timescales.

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Extinction risk from climate change

Chris D. Thomas, A. Cameron, Rhys E. Green et al. · Nature · 2004 · 7.7K citations · Full text

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Status and Trends of Amphibian Declines and Extinctions Worldwide

Simon N. Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil A. Cox et al. · Science · 2004 · 4.5K citations

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Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction

Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Anthony D. Barnosky et al. · Science Advances · 2015 · 4.1K citations · Full text

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Habitat destruction and the extinction debt

David Tilman, Robert M. May, Clarence Lehman et al. · Nature · 1994 · 2.8K citations

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Biotic homogenization: a few winners replacing many losers in the next mass extinction

Michael L. McKinney, Julie L. Lockwood · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 1999 · 2.7K citations

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    Barry W. Brook

    The University of Adelaide, Australia

    29 publications · 4.3K citations

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    Michael J. Benton

    University of Bristol, United Kingdom

    27 publications · 3.1K citations

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    Paul B. Wignall

    University of Leeds, United Kingdom

    21 publications · 4K citations

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    Corey J. A. Bradshaw

    The University of Adelaide, Australia

    18 publications · 2.2K citations

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    Haijun Song

    China University of Geosciences, China

    19 publications · 1.8K citations

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  1. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    52 h-index

    98 publications

    21.2K citations

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    50 h-index

    306 publications

    30.2K citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    48 h-index

    121 publications

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  4. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    43 h-index

    120 publications

    17.1K citations

  5. Zoological Society of London

    London, United Kingdom

    43 h-index

    99 publications

    27K citations

  6. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    39 h-index

    89 publications

    46.9K citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    39 h-index

    77 publications

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  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    38 h-index

    71 publications

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  1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 122 publications · 30.3K citations

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  2. Conservation Biology

    130 publications · 22K citations

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  3. Science

    116 publications · 45K citations

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  4. Ecology

    98 publications · 14.4K citations

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  5. The American Naturalist

    AN · 117 publications · 16.2K citations

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