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dc.title | Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore | |
dc.contributor.author | Brook, B.W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sodhl, N.S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ng, P.K.L. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-27T08:23:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-27T08:23:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-07-24 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Brook, B.W., Sodhl, N.S., Ng, P.K.L. (2003-07-24). Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore. Nature 424 (6947) : 420-423. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01795 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 00280836 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/100218 | |
dc.description.abstract | The looming mass extinction of biodiversity in the humid tropics is a major concern for the future, yet most reports of extinctions in these regions are anecdotal or conjectural, with a scarcity of robust, broad-based empirical data. Here we report on local extinctions among a wide range of terrestrial and freshwater taxa from Singapore (540km2) in relation to habitat loss exceeding 95% over 183 years. Substantial rates of documented and inferred extinctions were found, especially for forest specialists, with the greatest proportion of extinct taxa (34-87%) in butterflies, fish, birds and mammals. Observed extinctions were generally fewer, but inferred losses often higher, in vascular plants, phasmids, decapods, amphibians and reptiles (5-80%). Forest reserves comprising only 0.25% of Singapore's area now harbour over 50% of the residual native biodiversity. Extrapolations of the observed and inferred local extinction data, using a calibrated species-area model, imply that the current unprecedented rate of habitat destruction in Southeast Asia will result in the loss of 13-42% of regional populations over the next century, at least half of which will represent global species extinctions. | |
dc.description.uri | http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature01795 | |
dc.source | Scopus | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.contributor.department | BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES | |
dc.description.doi | 10.1038/nature01795 | |
dc.description.sourcetitle | Nature | |
dc.description.volume | 424 | |
dc.description.issue | 6947 | |
dc.description.page | 420-423 | |
dc.description.coden | NATUA | |
dc.identifier.isiut | 000184318400041 | |
Appears in Collections: | Staff Publications |
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