No evidence that extinction risk increases in the largest and smallest vertebrates [Biological Sciences]

Extinction risk is widespread across the tree of life (1, 2). Therefore, a key goal of conservation biology is to identify predictors of species endangerment. The prevailing consensus that larger species are more likely to be threatened (3) was recently overturned by Ripple et al. (4), who demonstrate instead a...

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