posted on 2023-05-22, 00:26authored byBradshaw, CJA, Clements, GR, Laurance, WF, Barry BrookBarry Brook
We welcome the debate that our proposed species’ ability to forestall extinction (SAFE) index (Front Ecol Environ 2011; 9[9]: 521–525, this issue) has attracted from our peers (see previous letters by Akçakaya et al., Beissinger et al., and McCarthy et al.), because it has further emphasized the need for a more heuristic measure of species extinction threat.