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Phylogenetically clustered extinction risks do not substantially prune the Tree of Life. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Anthropogenic activities have increased the rate of biological extinction many-fold. Recent empirical studies suggest that projected extinction may lead to extensive loss to the Tree of Life, much more than if extinction were random.
Rakesh K Parhar, Arne Ø Mooers
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Extinction events can accelerate evolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Extinction events impact the trajectory of biological evolution significantly. They are often viewed as upheavals to the evolutionary process. In contrast, this paper supports the hypothesis that although they are unpredictably destructive, extinction ...
Joel Lehman, Risto Miikkulainen
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Permian-Triassic insect diversity revealed by fossils from China [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 Most of the research on Paleoentomology focuses on describing morphology and classification of one species of fossil insects. However, there is little information on the temporal diversity of insects during the Permian and Triassic periods.
Wang Peiran
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The ethics of species extinctions
Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023 This review provides an overview of the ethics of extinctions with a focus on the Western analytical environmental ethics literature. It thereby gives special attention to the possible philosophical grounds for Michael Soulé’s assertion that the untimely
Anna Wienhues +3 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 The Late Ordovician–Early Silurian period was a significant transitional phase in geological history and has garnered global interest. This study focuses on the black shale series of the Wufeng Formation–Longmaxi Formation of the Upper Ordovician–Lower ...
Zhibo Zhang +5 more
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Extinction in neutrally stable stochastic Lotka-Volterra models [PDF]
, 2012 Populations of competing biological species exhibit a fascinating interplay between the nonlinear dynamics of evolutionary selection forces and random fluctuations arising from the stochastic nature of the interactions.
Dobrinevski, A., Frey, E.
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Bistability induced by generalist natural enemies can reverse pest invasions [PDF]
, 2016 Reaction-diffusion analytical modeling of predator-prey systems has shown that specialist natural enemies can slow, stop and even reverse pest invasions, assuming that the prey population displays a strong Allee effect in its growth.
Barles, Guy +3 more
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Testing the accuracy of biological attributes in predicting extinction risk
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2020 The assessment of species conservation status traditionally relies on population data. In the absence of such data, biological attributes have been applied to predict the degree of species’ vulnerability. Our study investigated the accuracy of biological
Bruna F. Ceretta +5 more
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Extinction in a branching process: Why some of the fittest strategies cannot guarantee survival [PDF]
, 2013 The fitness of a biological strategy is typically measured by its expected reproductive rate, the first moment of its offspring distribution. However, strategies with high expected rates can also have high probabilities of extinction. A similar situation
Klaere, Steffen, Sawaya, Sterling
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Potential landscape-scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover [PDF]
, 2018 Understanding spatial variation in the structure and stability of plant-pollinator networks, and their relationship with anthropogenic drivers, is key to maintaining pollination services and mitigating declines.
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