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Biological hierarchies and the nature of extinction
Biological Reviews, 2017ABSTRACTHierarchy theory recognises that ecological and evolutionary units occur in a nested and interconnected hierarchical system, with cascading effects occurring between hierarchical levels. Different biological disciplines have routinely come into conflict over the primacy of different forcing mechanisms behind evolutionary and ecological change ...
Curtis R. Congreve +2 more
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On impacts and extinction: biological solutions to biological problems
Journal of Paleontology, 1990There appears to be an overwhelming urge in the study of earth sciences currently to discover the “cosmic generality.” Certainly, no observational and descriptive aspects of the study of earth history can be concluded until one has placed the observations into a broader context.
R. Feldmann
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The Functions of Biological Diversity in an Age of Extinction
Science, 2012Environmental Determinism? Earth's millions of species influence a wide range of environmental processes, including elemental cycling, the stability of ecosystems, and the goods and services they provide. Naeem et al. (p.
Shahid, Naeem +2 more
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Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming
Science, 2022Global warming threatens marine biota with losses of unknown severity. Here, we quantify global and local extinction risks in the ocean across a range of climate futures on the basis of the ecophysiological limits of diverse animal species and ...
J. Penn, C. Deutsch
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Biological Correlates of Extinction Risk in Bats
The American Naturalist, 2003(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) We investigated patterns and processes of extinction and threat in bats using a multivariate phylogenetic comparative approach. Of nearly 1,000 species worldwide, 239 are considered threatened by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and 12 are extinct.
Kate E, Jones +2 more
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OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology, 2003
AS BIOINFORMATICIANS, we think of biological data in terms of an experiment and as a snapshot of some biological process. As such, we store and process large quantity of this data, and we seek to preserve the “sanctity of this data in perpetuity.” However, our users, the biologists, never look back at old data once they have reconciled the data by an ...
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AS BIOINFORMATICIANS, we think of biological data in terms of an experiment and as a snapshot of some biological process. As such, we store and process large quantity of this data, and we seek to preserve the “sanctity of this data in perpetuity.” However, our users, the biologists, never look back at old data once they have reconciled the data by an ...
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Biological Extinction in Earth History
Science, 1986Virtually all plant and animal species that have ever lived on the earth are extinct. For this reason alone, extinction must play an important role in the evolution of life. The five largest mass extinctions of the past 600 million years are of greatest interest, but there is also a spectrum of smaller events, many of which indicate biological ...
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Biological Selectivity of Extinction: A Link between Background and Mass Extinction
PALAIOS, 1986The phenomenon of non-random or selective survival across major extinction boundaries in the geologic past is poorly understood but increasingly recognized as a critical area for future research. A current hypothesis, developedfrom a comparison of extinction patterns among Late Cretaceous molluscs, is that biological adaptations of organisms effectual ...
Jennifer A. Kitchell +2 more
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Biological response: extinction
1996The third major type of response of organisms to global climatic change is extinction: failure to survive the new conditions. The Quaternary is characterized by its particularly extreme climatic oscillations, and also for the occurrence of wholescale extinctions of large mammals at about the glacial–Holocene transition (Grayson 1984a).
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