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SUBMITTER: Dullinger S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3645564 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dullinger Stefan S Essl Franz F Rabitsch Wolfgang W Erb Karl-Heinz KH Gingrich Simone S Haberl Helmut H Hülber Karl K Jarosík Vojtech V Krausmann Fridolin F Kühn Ingolf I Pergl Jan J Pysek Petr P Hulme Philip E PE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20130415 18
Rapid economic development in the past century has translated into severe pressures on species survival as a result of increasing land-use change, environmental pollution, and the spread of invasive alien species. However, though the impact of these pressures on biodiversity is substantial, it could be seriously underestimated if population declines of plants and animals lag behind contemporary environmental degradation. Here, we test for such a delay in impact by relating numbers of threatened ...[more]