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SUBMITTER: Bellard C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4493580 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20150707
Most studies of the effects of global changes on biodiversity focus on a single threat, but multiple threats lead to species extinction. We lack spatially explicit assessments of the intensity of multiple threats and their impacts on biodiversity. Here, we used a novel metric of cumulative threats and impacts to assess the consequences of multiple threats on 196 endemic species across the USA. We predict that large areas with high cumulative impact scores for amphibians, birds, mammals, and rept ...[more]