Body size, extinction risk and knowledge bias in New World snakes.

Extinction risk and body size have been found to be related in various vertebrate groups, with larger species being more at risk than smaller ones. We checked whether this was also the case for snakes by investigating extinction risk-body size relationships in the New World's Colubroidea specie...

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Main Authors: Bruno Vilela, Fabricio Villalobos, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Levi Carina Terribile
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4237443?pdf=render