Reply to Feeley and Silman: Extinction risk estimates are approximations but are not invalid

Feeley and Silman (1) call our extinction risk estimates (,2) “invalid.” They are not. They are approximations. Ranges of species with >106 individuals are sufficiently large to avoid extinction even under Laurance et al.'s (3) pessimistic scenario, irrespective of range shape. Range shapes of species with <103 individuals are also irrelevant (ranges …