Rarity value and species extinction: the anthropogenic Allee effect.
Standard economic theory predicts that exploitation alone is unlikely to result in species extinction because of the escalating costs of finding the last individuals of a declining species. We argue that the human predisposition to place exaggerated value on rarity fuels disproportionate exploitatio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-11-01
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| Series: | PLoS Biology |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1661683?pdf=render |