Research ArticleENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction
- Gerardo Ceballos1,*,
- Paul R. Ehrlich2,
- Anthony D. Barnosky3,
- Andrés García4,
- Robert M. Pringle5 and
- Todd M. Palmer6
- 1Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F. 04510, México.
- 2Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304, USA.
- 3Department of Integrative Biology and Museums of Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720–3140, USA.
- 4Estación de Biología Chamela, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Jalisco 48980, México.
- 5Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
- 6Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611–8525, USA.
- ↵*Corresponding author. E-mail: gceballo{at}ecologia.unam.mx
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Science Advances 19 Jun 2015:
Vol. 1, no. 5, e1400253
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253
Vol. 1, no. 5, e1400253
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1400253
Gerardo Ceballos
1Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F. 04510, México.
Paul R. Ehrlich
2Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94304, USA.
Anthony D. Barnosky
3Department of Integrative Biology and Museums of Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720–3140, USA.
Andrés García
4Estación de Biología Chamela, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Jalisco 48980, México.
Robert M. Pringle
5Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Todd M. Palmer
6Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611–8525, USA.
