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In 1995 John Lawton identified a fundamental unresolved problem in conservation biology. He wrote:
“Some taxa (genera, tribes, families) are more extinction-prone than others, but we have no idea why......Although the reasons are often poorly understood, the implications are stark” (Lawton 1995, p. 159).
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Bennett, P.M., Owens, I.P.F., Baillie, J.E.M. (2001). The History and Ecological Basis of Extinction and Speciation in Birds. In: Lockwood, J.L., McKinney, M.L. (eds) Biotic Homogenization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1261-5_10
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