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TROPICAL MASS EXTINCTIONS AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Citation:
Dunning, J. TROPICAL MASS EXTINCTIONS AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-95/471, 1994.
Description:
Kangas (1992), Undiscovered species and the falsifiability of the tropical mass extinction hypotheses, ESA Bulletin 73:124-125, 1992, argues that there is a paradox concerning the mass extinctions projected from current rates of tropical deforestation. he parameters; for a given taxon the number of undescrib6d species found in a study plot of a particular size, and the number of species unique to a given spatial ar@a; could allow the estimate of how many undescribed species spatially restricted enough that the species could go extinct with a given amount of habitat loss. his estimate could then be tested with further sampling. he expected number of undescribed species would then give a testable hypotheses that could be approached with the scientific method.