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Behavioral Correlates of Primates Conservation Status: Intrinsic Vulnerability to Anthropogenic Threats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Behavioral traits are likely to influence species vulnerability to anthropogenic threats and in consequence, their risk of extinction. Several studies have addressed this question and have highlighted a correlation between reproductive strategies and ...
Amélie Christelle Lootvoet, Justine Philippon, Carmen Bessa-Gomes   +2 more
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Utopia without us?

Esboços, 2021
As the prospect of self-authored human extinction increasingly appears as a plausible scenario of human futures, a growing number of efforts aim at comprehending it as the prospect of the world without us.
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon
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Continental weathering and recovery from ocean nutrient stress during the Early Triassic Biotic Crisis

Communications Earth & Environment, 2022
Following the latest Permian extinction, nutrient availability from enhanced continental weathering enabled biological recovery in the ocean, according to K-Ar dating of clay minerals and nitrogen isotope analyses from high northern latitudes.
Jochen Knies, Jasmin Schönenberger, Horst Zwingmann, Roelant van der Lelij, Morten Smelror, Per Erik Vullum, Marco Brönner, Christoph Vogt, Ola Fredin, Axel Müller, Stephen E. Grasby, Benoit Beauchamp, Giulio Viola   +12 more
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Phylogenetics and biogeographic approaches to the study of extinction: from timetrees to patterns of biotic assemblage

Frontiers in Genetics, 2016
Global climate change and its impact on biodiversity levels have made extinction a relevant topic in biological research. Yet, until recently, extinction has received less attention in macroevolutionary studies than speciation; the reason is the ...
Isabel eSanmartin, Andrea S. Meseguer
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Phylogenetic Patterns of Extinction Risk in the Endemic Flora of a Mediterranean Hotspot as a Guiding Tool for Preemptive Conservation Actions

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Climate change is a major driver of biodiversity decline with pervasive effects in biodiversity hotspots, where many endemic and threatened species thrive. However, the biological drivers of extinction susceptibility remain largely elusive, which hampers
Rafael Molina-Venegas, Ignacio Ramos-Gutiérrez, Ignacio Ramos-Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos Moreno-Saiz, Juan Carlos Moreno-Saiz   +4 more
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Age-Dependent Host-Parasite Relations

, 2007
The death of a biological population is an extreme event which we investigate here for a host-parasitoid system. Our simulations using the Penna ageing model show how biological evolution can ``teach'' the parasitoids to avoid extinction by waiting for ...
Ana Proykova, Dietrich Stauffer, Karl-Heinz Lampe, Lampe, Malarz, Moss de Oliveira, Pal, Stauffer   +7 more
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DCC, a potential target for controlling fear memory extinction and hippocampal LTP in male mice receiving single prolonged stress

Neurobiology of Stress
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe stress-dependent psychiatric disorder characterized by impairment of fear memory extinction; however, biological markers to determine impaired fear memory extinction in PTSD remain unclear.
Shaojie Yang, Jiamin Hu, Yuzhuang Chen, Zhengrong Zhang, Jingji Wang, Guoqi Zhu   +5 more
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Population control methods in stochastic extinction and outbreak scenarios.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Adaptive limiter control (ALC) and adaptive threshold harvesting (ATH) are two related control methods that have been shown to stabilize fluctuating populations.
Juan Segura, Frank M Hilker, Daniel Franco   +2 more
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High-extinction VIPA-based Brillouin spectroscopy of turbid biological media

, 2016
Brillouin microscopy has recently emerged as powerful technique to characterize the mechanical properties of biological tissue, cell and biomaterials.
Fiore, Antonio, Scarcelli, Giuliano, Shao, Peng, Yun, Seok Hyun, Zhang, Jitao   +4 more
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Fluctuations in models of biological macroevolution

, 2005
Fluctuations in diversity and extinction sizes are discussed and compared for two different, individual-based models of biological coevolution. Both models display power-law distributions for various quantities of evolutionary interest, such as the ...
Rikvold, Per Arne
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