Exceptional body size-extinction risk relations shed new light on the freshwater biodiversity crisis [Biological Sciences]

In PNAS, Ripple et al. (1) show that the smallest species of reptiles, amphibians, and bony fishes suffer unusually high extinction risks given what we know about general body size–extinction risk relationships (2). The results of this study have important implications, considering that most studies exploring the community- or ecosystem-level...

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