In conservation biology, latent extinction risk is a measure of the potential for a species to become threatened.
Latent risk can most easily be described as the difference, or discrepancy, between the current observed extinction risk of a species (typically as quantified by the ) and the theoretical extinction risk of a species predicted by its biological or life history characteristics.
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