Reply to Kalinkat et al.: Smallest terrestrial vertebrates are highly imperiled

William J Ripple¹, Christopher Wolf², Thomas M Newsome^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Global Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331; bill.ripple@oregonstate.edu.
² Global Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.
³ School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3125, Australia.
⁴ School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
⁵ School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
⁶ International Union for Conservation of Nature, Species Survival Commission, Gland 1196, Switzerland.
⁷ Conservation Programmes, Zoological Society of London, London NW1 4RY, United Kingdom.
⁸ Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.

Comment

William J Ripple et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017.

. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):E10265.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1717570114. Epub 2017 Nov 9.

William J Ripple¹, Christopher Wolf², Thomas M Newsome^{2

3

4

5}, Michael Hoffmann^{6

7}, Aaron J Wirsing⁵, Douglas J McCauley⁸

¹ Global Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331; bill.ripple@oregonstate.edu.
² Global Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.
³ School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3125, Australia.
⁴ School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
⁵ School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
⁶ International Union for Conservation of Nature, Species Survival Commission, Gland 1196, Switzerland.
⁷ Conservation Programmes, Zoological Society of London, London NW1 4RY, United Kingdom.
⁸ Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Extinction risk is most acute for the world's largest and smallest vertebrates.
Ripple WJ, Wolf C, Newsome TM, Hoffmann M, Wirsing AJ, McCauley DJ. Ripple WJ, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Oct 3;114(40):10678-10683. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1702078114. Epub 2017 Sep 18. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 28923917 Free PMC article.
Exceptional body size-extinction risk relations shed new light on the freshwater biodiversity crisis.
Kalinkat G, Jähnig SC, Jeschke JM. Kalinkat G, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Nov 28;114(48):E10263-E10264. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1717087114. Epub 2017 Nov 9. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017. PMID: 29122937 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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