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Tropical forests may be hiding mass extinctions

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Cosmos

Publication Date
2017-05-02

A mass extinction of tropical species ranging from bats to butterflies may have already happened without anyone noticing, suggests research from Australia’s Macquarie University. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, biologist John Alroy has used local-scale ecological data obtained across the world’s tropical zones to predict global-scale extinction rates across 11 key ecological groups.

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https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/tropical-forests-may-be-hiding-mass-extinctions