Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Combined impacts of deforestation and wildlife trade on tropical biodiversity are severely underestimated

  • William S. Symes,
  • David P. Edwards,
  • Jukka Miettinen,
  • Frank E. Rheindt,
  • L. Roman Carrasco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06579-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Disentangling multiple drivers of species declines can be difficult yet is critical to species conservation. Here, the authors parse the relative contributions of deforestation and trapping to declines of native birds in Southeast Asia, finding that the extinction risk of trapped species may be underestimated.