Table 2.
Estimated numbers of squamate extinctions in studied geographic regions
Region | Species | Prior | Posterior | Extinct | CI |
Southeastern United States | 164 | 0.0690 | 0.0163 | 2.67 | 1.06–5.06 |
Mesoamerica | 748 | 0.0908 | 0.0197 | 14.74 | 11.09–18.95 |
Brazil | 300 | 0.0494 | 0.0059 | 1.77 | 1.02–2.80 |
Southern Europe | 97 | 0.0796 | 0.0192 | 1.86 | 0.69–3.83 |
East Africa | 283 | 0.1083 | 0.0307 | 8.68 | 5.85–12.23 |
Madagascar | 223 | 0.1183 | 0.0447 | 9.96 | 6.44–14.11 |
South Asia | 251 | 0.1130 | 0.0380 | 9.55 | 6.46–13.22 |
Sunda | 449 | 0.0419 | 0.0057 | 2.57 | 1.33–4.35 |
Sahul | 906 | 0.0522 | 0.0073 | 6.63 | 4.64–9.07 |
Global | 3266 | 0.0744 | 0.0165 | 53.99 | 45.96–62.41 |