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    <namePart>Lawton, John H.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1943-</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>May, Robert M. (Robert McCredie)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1936-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1995</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xii, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Assessing extinction rates / Robert M. May, John H. Lawton, Nigel E. Stork -- Extinctions in the fossil record / David Jablonski -- Constancy and change of life in the sea / J.B.C. Jackson -- Insect faunas in ice age environments : why so little extinction? / G.R. Coope -- Bird extinctions in the central Pacific / Stuart L. Pimm, Michael P. Moulton, Lenora J. Justice -- Extinctions in Mediterranean areas / Werner Greuter -- Recent past and future extinctions in birds / Colin J. Bibby -- Rates and patterns of extinction among British invertebrates / J.A. Thomas, M.G. Morris -- Assessing the risk of plant extinction due to pollinator and disperser failure / W.J. Bond -- Population dynamic principles / John H. Lawton -- Estimating extinction from molecular phylogenies / Sean Nee, Edward C. Holmes, Robert M. May, Paul H. Harvey -- Biological models for monitoring species decline: the construction and use of databases / C.R. Margules, M.P. Austin -- Classification of threatened species and its role in conservation planning / Georgina M. Mace -- The scale of the human enterprise and biodiversity loss / Paul R. Ehrlich.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by John H. Lawton and Robert M. May.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Extinction (Biology)</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="20">575/.7</classification>
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