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Estimating extinction rates

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  1. Department of Zoo logy, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, 0X13PS, UK

    Fraser. D. M. Smith & Robert M. May

  2. World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CBS ODL, UK

    Robin Pellew, Timothy H. Johnson & Kerry S. Walter

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Smith, F., May, R., Pellew, R. et al. Estimating extinction rates. Nature 364, 494–496 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/364494b0

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