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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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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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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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Measurements of Light Extinction by Single Aerosol Particles [PDF]
, 2013 A Bessel beam optical trap is combined with continuous wave cavity ringdown spectroscopy to measure the extinction cross section of individual aerosol particles.
Reid, Jonathan P. +3 more
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Testing new ideas regarding the nature of interstellar extinction [PDF]
, 2023 openStudy of interstellar extinction, from observations to modelling. Application to CCM extinction curves, in-depth analysis of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs).
CIBODDO, VITTORIO
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Survival of small populations under demographic stochasticity [PDF]
, 1992 We estimate the mean time to extinction of small populations in an environment with constant carrying capacity but under stochastic demography. In particular, we investigate the interaction of stochastic variation in fecundity and sex ratio under several
Bürger, Reinhard, Gabriel, Wilfried
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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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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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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 +2 more
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