Study: Species math wrong
Posted on Monday, July 7th, 2008
By ahedgehog
Species already listed as endangered may be racing toward extinction 100 times faster than originally thought, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Author Brett Melbourne says today’s extinction-risk models have drastically underestimated the speed at which endangered species will perish.
“It’s a mathematical misdiagnosis,” said Melbourne, an assistant professor in the ecology and evolutionary biology department at CU-Boulder.
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