Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial

Alexander C Lees^{1

2}, Simon Attwood^{3

4}, Jos Barlow^{5

6

7}, Ben Phalan^{8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. alexander.lees@mmu.ac.uk.
² Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. alexander.lees@mmu.ac.uk.
³ WWF-Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Maccarese, Italy.
⁵ Setor de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brazil.
⁶ Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
⁷ CIBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁸ Parque das Aves, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil.
⁹ Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.

Alexander C Lees et al. Nat Ecol Evol. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;4(11):1440-1443.

doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01285-z.

Alexander C Lees^{1

2}, Simon Attwood^{3

4}, Jos Barlow^{5

6

7}, Ben Phalan^{8

9}

¹ Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. alexander.lees@mmu.ac.uk.
² Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. alexander.lees@mmu.ac.uk.
³ WWF-Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
⁴ The Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Maccarese, Italy.
⁵ Setor de Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, Brazil.
⁶ Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
⁷ CIBIO, Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁸ Parque das Aves, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, Brazil.
⁹ Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.

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