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SUBMITTER: Arbuckle K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5180155 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20161123 11
Many attributes of species may be linked to contemporary extinction risk, though some such traits remain untested despite suggestions that they may be important. Here, I test whether a trait associated with higher background extinction rates, chemical antipredator defence, is also associated with current extinction risk, using amphibians as a model system-a group facing global population declines. I find that chemically defended species are approximately 60% more likely to be threatened than spe ...[more]