Contradicting habitat type-extinction risk relationships between living and fossil amphibians.

ABSTRACT: Trait analysis has become a crucial tool for assessing the extinction risk of species. While some extinction risk-trait relationships have been often identical between different living taxa, a temporal comparison of fossil taxa with related current taxa was rarely considered. However, we argue that it is important to know if extinction risk-trait relations are constant or changing over time. Herein we investigated the influence of habitat type on the persistence length of amphibian species. Living amphibians are regarded as the most threatened group of terrestrial vertebrates and thus of high interest to conservationists. Species from different habitat types show differences in extinction risk, i.e. species depending on flowing waters being more threatened than those breeding in stagnant s

SUBMITTER: Tietje M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5451811 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature