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The predictability of extinction: biological and external correlates of decline in mammals [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008 Extinction risk varies among species, and comparative analyses can help clarify the causes of this variation. Here we present a phylogenetic comparative analysis of species-level extinction risk across nearly the whole of the class Mammalia.
Georgina M. Mace +6 more
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Cultural extinction in evolutionary perspective
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Cultural diversity is disappearing quickly. Whilst a phylogenetic approach makes explicit the continuous extinction of cultures, and the generation of new ones, cultural evolutionary changes such as the rise of agriculture or more recently colonisation ...
Hanzhi Zhang, Ruth Mace
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Biological traits of seabirds predict extinction risk and vulnerability to anthropogenic threats [PDF]
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2020 ABSTRACTAimHere we aim to: 1) test whether globally-threatened vs non-threatened seabirds are separated in trait space; 2) quantify the redundancy and uniqueness of species trait combinations per IUCN Red List Category; and 3) identify traits that render species vulnerable to anthropogenic threats.LocationGlobalTime periodContemporaryMajor taxa ...
Cerren Richards +2 more
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High-extinction VIPA-based Brillouin spectroscopy of turbid biological media [PDF]
Applied Physics Letters, 2016 Brillouin microscopy has recently emerged as powerful technique to characterize the mechanical properties of biological tissue, cell and biomaterials.
Fiore, Antonio +4 more
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Biological legacies buffer local species extinction after logging [PDF]
Journal of Applied Ecology, 2013 SummaryClearcutting has been identified as a main threat to forest biodiversity. In the last few decades, alternatives to clearcutting have gained much interest. Living and dead trees are often retained after harvest to serve as structural legacies to mitigate negative effects of forestry.
Jörgen, Rudolphi +3 more
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Contextual and Temporal Modulation of Extinction: Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms [PDF]
Biological Psychiatry, 2006 Extinction depends, at least partly, on new learning that is specific to the context in which it is learned. Several behavioral phenomena (renewal, reinstatement, spontaneous recovery, and rapid reacquisition) suggest the importance of context in extinction.
Bouton, Mark E. +3 more
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Direct and indirect effects of biological factors on extinction risk in fossil bivalves [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011 Biological factors, such as abundance and body size, may contribute directly to extinction risk and indirectly through their influence on other biological characteristics, such as geographic range size. Paleontological data can be used to explicitly test many of these hypothesized relationships, and general patterns revealed through analysis of the ...
Paul G. Harnik
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Journal of Political Ecology, 2022 Amidst the many socio-ecological crises facing the world today, the biodiversity crisis is considered one of the most foundational. According to scientists, we have entered yet another mass extinction event in the history of the planet, though the first ...
Bram Büscher
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A comprehensive quantitative assessment of bird extinction risk in Brazil. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In an effort to avoid species loss, scientists have focused their efforts on the mechanisms making some species more prone to extinction than others. However, species show different responses to threats given their evolutionary history, behavior, and ...
Nathália Machado, Rafael Dias Loyola
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Controlling Pest by Integrated Pest Management: A Dynamical Approach [PDF]
International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, 2020 Integrated Pest Management technique is used to formulate a mathematical model by using biological and chemical control impulsively. The uniform boundedness and the existence of pest extinction and nontrivial equilibrium points is discussed.
Vandana Kumari +2 more
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