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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"The predictors
of risk were significantly different for smaller and larger species,
with the importance of many predictors changing markedly at a body
size of 3 kg. Species smaller than this fit the firing-line model:
Š. Larger species, however, face multiple jeopardy: Š."<br>
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"Perhaps the most obvious proposed risk factor for extinction is
large body size."<br>
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Davies, et al. Phylogenetic trees and mammalian biodiversity.<i>
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,</i> Aug. 12,
2008.<br>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Of more than 150
genera of megafauna -- that is, animals weighing more than 44
kilograms (97 pounds) -- living on Earth 50,000 years ago, at least 97
were extinct by 10,000 years ago. If you look at localized
extinctions instead of global extinctions, 121 genera disappeared from
at least one continent."<br>
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"'One thing we can do, as conservationists, is to create and
connect natural areas' to allow animals to move around, he
added."<br>
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CLIMATE CHANGE PLUS HUMAN PRESSURE CAUSED<br>
LARGE MAMMAL EXTINCTIONS IN LATE PLEISTOCENE<br>
NASA Earth Observatory -- MEDIA ALERT<br>
September 30, 2004<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Here we
discuss the capacity of conservation organizations to adapt to
changing environmental conditions, focusing primarily on public
agencies and nonprofits active in land protection and management in
the US. After first reviewing how these organizations anticipate and
detect impacts affecting target species and ecosystems, we then
discuss whether they are sufficiently flexible to prepare and respond
by re-allocating funding, staff, or other resources. We raise new
hypotheses about how the configuration of different organizations
enables them to protect particular conservation targets and manage for
particular biophysical changes that require coordinated management
actions over different spatial and temporal scales. Finally, we
provide a discussion resource to help conservation organizations
assess their capacity to adapt."<br>
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Paul R. Armsworth et al. Are conservation organizations configured for
effective adaptation to global change?<i> Frontiers in Ecology
and Environment</i> 2015 doi:10.1890/130352</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"In order to
jointly provide desired levels of urban land, food production, and
ecosystem service and species habitat provision, the global society
will have to become much more strategic in its allocation of
intensively managed land uses."<br>
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Erik Nelson, Heather Sander et al. Projecting Global Land-Use Change
and Its Effect on Ecosystem Service Provision and Biodiversity.<i>
PloSONE</i> December 15, 2010.</font></div>
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