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Geography of current and future global mammal extinction risk. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Identifying which species are at greatest risk, what makes them vulnerable, and where they are distributed are central goals for conservation science. While knowledge of which factors influence extinction risk is increasingly available for some taxonomic
Ana D Davidson +8 more
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Biological and extrinsic correlates of extinction risk in Chinese lizards [PDF]
Current Zoology, 2021 Abstract China is a country with one of the most species-rich reptile faunas in the world. However, nearly a quarter of Chinese lizard species assessed by the China Biodiversity Red List are threatened. Nevertheless, to date, no study has explicitly examined the pattern and processes of extinction and threat in Chinese lizards.
Yuxi Zhong (钟雨茜) +2 more
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Human population density and extinction risk in the world's carnivores. [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2004 Understanding why some species are at high risk of extinction, while others remain relatively safe, is central to the development of a predictive conservation science.
Marcel Cardillo +5 more
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The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?
Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2022 There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may be underway, this time caused entirely by humans.
R. Cowie, P. Bouchet, B. Fontaine
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Spatial, Phylogenetic, Environmental and Biological Components of Variation in Extinction Risk: A Case Study Using Banksia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Comparative analyses of extinction risk routinely apply methods that account for phylogenetic non-independence, but few analyses of extinction risk have addressed the possibility of spatial non-independence.
Marcel Cardillo, Alexander Skeels
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Vertebrates on the brink as indicators of biological annihilation and the sixth mass extinction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance The ongoing sixth mass extinction may be the most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization, because it is irreversible.
G. Ceballos, P. Ehrlich, P. Raven
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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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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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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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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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