Understanding how extinction has occurred in the recent past is crucial to unravel its main drivers as well as to implement effective conservation practices to minimize global biodiversity loss. It has long been hypothesized that extinction risk is not randomly distributed among traits of species. However, the actual traits making species more prone to extinction may have been overlooked because already extinct species are often not considered in comparative analyses of extinction risk. We characterized the drivers of extinction in a cosmopolitan bird clade, including Holocene and contemporary extinctions potentially related to human impacts and provided evidence of an ‘extinction selectivity’ in species traits.

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灭绝选择性掩盖了鸽形目中性状依赖的濒危模式


了解最近的灭绝是如何发生的对于揭示其主要驱动因素以及实施有效的保护措施以最大限度地减少全球生物多样性丧失至关重要。长期以来，人们一直假设灭绝风险并不是随机分布在物种特征之间的。然而，使物种更容易灭绝的实际特征可能被忽视，因为在灭绝风险的比较分析中通常不考虑已经灭绝的物种。我们描述了世界性鸟类进化枝灭绝的驱动因素，包括可能与人类影响相关的全新世和当代灭绝，并提供了物种特征中“灭绝选择性”的证据。