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Predictive traits to the rescue

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Climate change poses new challenges to the conservation of species, which at present requires data-hungry models to meaningfully anticipate future threats. Now a study suggests that species traits may offer a simpler way to help predict future extinction risks.

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Figure 1: A schematic representation of the approaches used to identify extinction risk showing some of the data requirements, output products and remaining challenges.

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