Special Issue on Earth's Disappearing Animals (1 of 13) (IMAGE)

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Special Issue on Earth's Disappearing Animals (1 of 13)

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Large mammals, such as the tapir, are the first to disappear in human-modified ecosystems. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the 25 July, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Rodolfo Dirzo at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'Defaunation in the Anthropocene.'

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Mauro Galetti

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