Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species

By Marcel Cardillo, Georgina M. Mace, Kate E. Jones, Jon Bielby, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, W. Sechrest, C. D. L. Orme, Andy Purvis. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology

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Late Quaternary reptile extinctions: size matters, insularity dominates (2016, background): “Cardillo et al. (2005) found that small mammals (< 3 kg) are threatened by environmental factors while larger mammals are threatened by a combination of extrinsic environmental factors and intrinsic biological traits.”
Ongoing unraveling of a continental fauna: Decline and extinction of Australian mammals since European settlement (2015, background): “This size pattern for extinction risk in Australian mammals is notably different to the global trend, whereby larger mammals have been and are most likely to become extinct (68).”
Evolutionary Foraging Models in Zooarchaeological Analysis: Recent Applications and Future Challenges (2007, background): “Application of human behavioral ecology to contemporary and prehistoric human populations began some three decades ago (Chagnon and Irons 1979; Cronk et al. 2000; Winterhalder and Smith 1981).”
Biases in the current knowledge of threat status in lizards, and bridging the ‘assessment gap’ (2016, neutral): “…loss and degradation, overexploitation, invasive species, and climate change (Thomas et al., 2004; Sinervo et al., 2010; Hoffmann et al., 2010; Foden et al., 2013; Böhm et al., 2016–in this issue), with most species impacted by multiple threat processes (Cardillo et al., 2005; Böhm et al., 2013).”
Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots (2016, background): “Large body size correlates with many known extinction-promoting traits, including low population densities, slower life histories (Cardillo et al. 2005), and higher risk from hunters (Cowlishaw and Dunbar 2000).”
The ecology of lizard reproductive output (2012, neutral): “(e.g. Johnson, 2002; Cardillo et al., 2005; Turvey, 2009).”
Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals (2013, background): “animals and plants, threatened and declining species include a disproportionate number of specialists compared to generalists and of species with extensive geographic ranges [15].”
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of living in a defaunated world (2013, background): “large home ranges and consequently requirements for large natural areas as well as natural low population densities (Cardillo et al., 2005)); and (ii) extrinsic factors, particularly preference by hunters and poachers (who selectively persecute these animals for meat, pelts, horns or other (‘‘medici”
Priority areas for the conservation of Atlantic forest large mammals (2009, background): “We include body size as an additional component of the site priority index because populations of larger species need larger areas, are generally more prone to local extinction and usually exert important and unique ecosystem functions (Pimm, 1991; Woodward et al., 2005; Cardillo et al., 2005).”
Predicting susceptibility to future declines in the world's frogs (2008, background): “We analysed RDs to find rules-of-thumb about which biological and environmental traits make species more susceptible to increased extinction risk in the future, and to form a basis for recommendations on future conservation efforts ( Cardillo et al. 2006 ).”