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JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY
卷 98, 期 4, 页码 913-917出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyx079
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biodiversity hotspot; conservation; endemism; extinction; fossils; islands; West Indies
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- ASM Program Committee
- NSF VertLife Terrestrial grant [1441737]
Of the 116 mammal species present in the Greater Antilles at the start of the Holocene Epoch, only 56 now survive, with more extensive species losses (similar to 80%) in native lineages of sloths, shrews, rodents, and primates than in bats (similar to 25%). Native species occurrences and extinctions are summarized herein for Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico and used to introduce this Journal of Mammalogy Special Feature on insular Caribbean mammals. Recent efforts to understand extinct and extant Caribbean mammal diversity highlight the utility of paleobiological perspectives for exposing the trajectory of species losses and informing how best to protect remaining biodiversity in this region.
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