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From onlinelibrary.wiley.com - March 11, 2016 3:28 AM
L'introduction synthétise d'abord les chiffres sur les espèces en voie menacées : "The average global rate of vertebrate species loss over the last century is up to 100 times higher than background rates (Pimm et al. 1995, Ceballos et al. 2015). Of mammals, nearly a quarter (22%) of the world's species are classed as threatened or extinct, while 15% are classed as data deficient (Hilton-Taylor et al. 2009).