Biological determinants of extinction risk: why are smaller species less vulnerable?

By M. Cardillo. 2003

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Traits explain community disassembly and trophic contraction following experimental environmental change (2012, background): “For example, extinction risk under habitat loss and fragmentation is associated with traits such as high trophic position, large body size and poor dispersal ability (Didham et al., 1998; Gonzalez & Chaneton, 2002; Cardillo, 2003).”
What are the best correlates of predicted extinction risk (2004, background): “There is considerable evidence for an inverse association between population size and extinction risk (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967; Terborgh and Winter, 1980; Diamond, 1984; Goodman, 1987; Pimm et al., 1988; Berger, 1990; Newmark, 1994, 1996; Mace and Kershaw, 1997; McKinney, 1997; Belovsky et al., 1”
Analysis of factors implicated in the recent decline of Australia's mammal fauna (2007, background): “…involved non-volant species with mean adult body weights of between 35 and 5500 g. Cardillo & Bromham (2001) showed that the upper (but not the lower – Cardillo, 2003) limit of the critical weight range was statistically invalid if the data set included Thylacinus cynocephalus (Harris, 1808 –…”
Body mass and extinction risk in Australian marsupials: The ‘Critical Weight Range’ revisited (2009, background): “Cardillo 2003 ); higher population growth rates of smaller species allow them to recover more quickly from declines and to absorb higher levels of predation.”
A systematic review of the relation between species traits and extinction risk (2018, background): “Traits related to exposure to 53 human pressures have also been relevant in predicting threats to species (Cardillo, 2003), and recently 54 Murray et al.”
Developing an evolutionary ecology of fear : how life history and natural history traits affect disturbance tolerance in birds (2006, background): “Body size influences vulnerability (Werner 1984) as well as a species’ extinction risk (Gaston & Blackburn 1995; Cardillo & Bromham 2001; Cardillo 2003; but see Crooks et al. 2001; Johnson 2002).”
Effects of climate change on life history: implications for extinction risk in mammals (2009, background): “In general, large body size is predicted to increase extinction risk in mammals due to a combination of factors, including slower reproductive rates, greater range requirements and a higher trophic level (Purvis et al. 2000; Cardillo et al. 2005).”
Ecological and socio-economic factors affecting extinction risk in parrots (2016, background): “As for other taxonomic groups, large bodied parrots are more prone to extinction risk (Fig S2b) (Bennett and Owens 1997; Cardillo 2003; Cardillo and Bromham 2001; Purvis et al. 2000).”
Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores (2004, background): “A number of recent studies have linked variation in extinction risk or decline among species to biological traits (Gaston and Blackburn 1995; Bennett and Owens 1997; Owens and Bennett 2000; Purvis et al. 2000; Cardillo and Bromham 2001; Cardillo 2003; Fisher et al. 2003; Jones et al. 2003), and, ind”
Unprotecting the rare species: a niche‐based gap analysis for odonates in a core Cerrado area (2011, background): “Individual species are products of an evolutionary process that has yielded a fixed set of ecological traits that may be important surrogates for species persistence or extinction in a given landscape (Gaston & Blackburn, 1996; Davies et al., 2000; Fagan et al., 2001; Cardillo, 2003).”
Small fish, big fish, red fish, blue fish: size-biased extinction risk of the world's freshwater and marine fishes. (2007, background): “While the relationship between body size and extinction risk is complex, a considerable body of ecological theory predicts that small-bodied species are less vulnerable to extinction (McKinney, 1997; Cardillo, 2003; and references therein).”
Resistance and resilience: quantifying relative extinction risk in a diverse assemblage of Australian tropical rainforest vertebrates (2009, background): “Small-bodied species do appear more resilient, likely because small body size is commonly linked to faster generation times and a faster life history in general (Cardillo, 2003). Other traits that promote resilience are likely to include relatively high reproductive rates in order to maintain (or re”
Inferring persistence of indigenous mammals in response to urbanisation (2005, background): “Interestingly, a number of recent studies have found an association between range decline and increasing body size, suggesting that small mammals with lower body weights are more likely to remain extant (Smith & Quinn, 1996; Cardillo & Bromham, 2001; Cardillo, 2003).”
Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena (2011, background): “…to other global patterns, such as the latitudinal gradient of species richness (Blackburn and Gaston 1994, 1996, 1998, Johnson 1998a) as well as patterns of extinction (Johnson 1998b, Purvis et al. 2000, Cardillo 2003, Cardillo et al. 2005, Olden et al. 2007) and evolution (Cooper and Purvis 2010).”
Animal temperature limits and ecological relevance: effects of size, activity and rates of change (2009, background): “However, as small phyla are often more active than larger ones in marine ectotherms, our data may help to explain why small species have been historically suggested to be less vulnerable to extinction events (Cardillo 2003).”