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Who "pays" the extinction debt, and why? 🦎 🏝️ 🇬🇷
Thrilled to share a new paper out now in Ecology and Evolution (open access). This work from my MSc asks how sea-level rise since the last ice age has shaped reptile extinctions on Greek islands.
Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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doi.org
Who Is Paying the Extinction Debt? Phylogenetic and Functional Structuring on Greek Islands Is Shaped by Sea‐Level Rise Since the Last Glacial Maximum
Since the Last Glacial Maximum, sea-level rise has isolated, fragmented, and shrunk islands, supersaturating squamate communities and triggering ongoing community relaxation. Integrating a paleo-coas...