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Species, extinct before we know them?

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Lees, AC; Pimm, SL
Published in: Current biology : CB
March 2015

Species are going extinct rapidly, while taxonomic catalogues are still incomplete for even the best-known taxa. Intensive fieldwork is finding species so rare and threatened that some become extinct within years of discovery. Recent bird extinctions in Brazil's coastal forests suggest that some species may have gone extinct before we knew of their existence.

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Current biology : CB

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EISSN

1879-0445

ISSN

0960-9822

Publication Date

March 2015

Volume

25

Issue

5

Start / End Page

R177 / R180

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Factors
  • Species Specificity
  • Extinction, Biological
  • Endangered Species
  • Developmental Biology
  • Classification
  • Brazil
  • Birds
  • Animals
  • 52 Psychology
 

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Lees, A. C., & Pimm, S. L. (2015). Species, extinct before we know them? Current Biology : CB, 25(5), R177–R180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.017
Lees, Alexander C., and Stuart L. Pimm. “Species, extinct before we know them?Current Biology : CB 25, no. 5 (March 2015): R177–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.017.
Lees AC, Pimm SL. Species, extinct before we know them? Current biology : CB. 2015 Mar;25(5):R177–80.
Lees, Alexander C., and Stuart L. Pimm. “Species, extinct before we know them?Current Biology : CB, vol. 25, no. 5, Mar. 2015, pp. R177–80. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.12.017.
Lees AC, Pimm SL. Species, extinct before we know them? Current biology : CB. 2015 Mar;25(5):R177–R180.
Journal cover image

Published In

Current biology : CB

DOI

EISSN

1879-0445

ISSN

0960-9822

Publication Date

March 2015

Volume

25

Issue

5

Start / End Page

R177 / R180

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Factors
  • Species Specificity
  • Extinction, Biological
  • Endangered Species
  • Developmental Biology
  • Classification
  • Brazil
  • Birds
  • Animals
  • 52 Psychology