Sentences with phrase «species leading to extinction»

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It leads to the extinction of species especially by destruction of their habitat.

The planets» innumerable living species are not fixed but are subject to slow evolutionary change, leading sometimes to the emergence of new species and sometimes to their extinction.

That wasn't the case some 70 years ago, when the species was threatened with extinction, leading Congress to pass a law prohibiting the killing, selling or possession of the bird.

But it may lead to a livable one in which starvation and pestilence and genocide, the rapid extinction of species, and others of the most appalling evils of our own time will not be so prominent.

On the other hand the thirteenth rivet popped from a wing, or the extinction of a key species in the cycling of nitrogen, for example could lead to a serious malfunctioning of the nitrogen cycle.

It is a documented fact that animal agriculture, or trying to sustain an animal based diet globally is the leading cause of environmental destruction, species extinction, and with other unhealthy food, the number one cause of illness globally.

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

For most species the temperature change was too sudden for them to adapt, leading to mass extinctions.

By analyzing the fossils of thousands of ancient crustaceans, a team of scientists led by NMNH paleontologist Gene Hunt has found that devoting a lot of energy to the competition for mates may compromise species» resilience to change and increase their risk of extinction.

Scientists now believe that the projected decreases in the polar sea ice due to global warming will have a significant negative impact or even lead to extinction of this species within this century.

New research shows that the loss of biodiversity can increase the risk of «extinction cascades,» where an initial species loss leads to a domino effect of further extinctions.

Even if the loss of one species does not directly cause knock - on extinctions, the study shows that this leads to simpler ecological communities that are at greater risk of «run - away extinction cascades» with the potential loss of many species.

The researchers removed one species of wasp and found that it led to secondary extinctions of other, indirectly linked, species at the same level of the food web.

A first - of - its - kind study led by researchers at the University of Florida shows that the dramatic loss of elephants, which disperse seeds after eating vegetation, is leading to the local extinction of a dominant tree species, with likely cascading effects for other forest life.

The disease caused by Bd, chytridiomycosis, has led to the recent decline or extinction of 200 frog species worldwide.

Predictions that climate change alone could lead to the extinction of more than one - fifth of plant and animal species before the end of the century have often come under fire, and not just from climate - change deniers.

The renowned Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson has claimed that the introduction of alien species is second only to habitat destruction as the leading cause of extinctions worldwide.

A Yale - led study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass extinction in the modern world.

Other forms of rarity, like a limited range and a small population size for species that once were common, are not sustainable and could lead to extinction.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first vertebrates to live on land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.

Mr William Symes, a PhD student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, who led the study, said, «Increasing our understanding of the drivers of international wildlife trade is critical as unsustainable harvesting of wildlife can lead to population decline and the extinction of species.

«The habitat would be chopped down and, in addition, with so many of the people who come in, there will be more hunting... exacting more pressure on species and leading to population declines and local extinctions.

But in others, such as Pakistan, uncontrolled exploitation of rare wild species may lead to their extinction.

Some species, however, may not be able to keep pace with future changes potentially leading to new regional ecosystems as novel climate patterns emerge, possibly leading to extinctions if some climates disappear entirely.

Babbitt hopes that such basic research will lead to earlier interventions to save key ecosystems before individual species reach the brink of extinction, avoiding what he describes as «environmental and economic train wrecks».

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

Kerosene refined from such petroleum helped displace the whale oil that lit lamps in the 19th century and led to the near extinction of many whale species.

A new study finds populations of several frog species in Panama appear to be gaining resistance to a deadly pathogen that can lead to extinction.

Our world's island communities, plants, and wildlife are in crisis due to damaging invasive species, the leading cause of extinctions on islands.

One, sometimes called the «Great Dying,» occurred as the Permian period gave way to the Triassic and led to the extinction of huge numbers of species.

This led the researchers to conclude that the Neanderthal extinction might very well have been a function of population dynamics, and not one species» superiority over another.

A mass extinction about 200 million years ago, which destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, happened very quickly and is demonstrated in the fossil record by the collapse of one - celled organisms called protists, according to new research led by a University of Washington paleontologist.

The disease will likely lead to extinction of several remnant species of honeycreepers unless something is done to decrease the burden of the parasite to native birds.

Cause rising of the average temperature of the Earth could lead to effect - the melting of polar ices, soil desertification, and extinction of certain species of flora and fauna.

Mesopredator release is a general phenomenon which has been demonstrated in other top predator - mesopredator - prey systems, not just coyote - cat - bird, and in most of them the removal of the top predator causes a cascade leading to localized extinction of certain prey species.

John Woinarksi: Australian mammals did suffer a wave of extinctions initially in semi-arid then arid Australia leading up to about the 1960s, and we thought that might be the end of the problem but in fact over the last two to three decades in northern Australia, the same sorts of species that went extinct elsewhere in Australia seem to be disappearing rapidly from that northern Australian landscape as well.

The destruction of this sparrow's sagebrush and coreopsis nesting habitat and the presence of feral cats led to the extinction of this species in the 1960s.

Built on consumerism and the rapid augmentation of profits, progress in our post-industrial age has led to serious environmental imbalances in the most comprehensive sense of the term: an over-consumption of non-renewable raw materials, noise, visual and air pollution, and the extinction of animal and vegetable species.

Wind farms * do * do damage, and indeed a proliferation of them is very likely to lead to the extinction of several species of bird here in the US.

Please show me the proof that leads you do think it very likely to lead to extinction of several species of bird in the US.

The fact that it is now showing up in Hawai`i in double - digit numbers around breeding season is huge news and potentially a major development in the efforts to protect this species from extinction,» said Dr. George Wallace, Vice President for Oceans and Islands at American Bird Conservancy, the nation's leading bird conservation organization.

The last major acidification event 250 million years ago has apparently led to a massive extinction of species in the world's oceans.

Instead of focusing on the nearly immeasurable moment when a species ceases to exist, he and other biologists say, science should focus harder on the forces that lead toward extinction — the destruction or fragmentation of habitat, the introduction of invasive species, the appropriation of water or other vital resources.

The introduction of these new predators to South America led to the extinction of many mammalian species that lived there, including all 13 native species of ungulates (hoofed mammals).

The scientific ecologist is quite attuned to evolutionary changes leading to new species or extinctions.

The authors look closely at claims climate change will injure coral and other forms of marine life, possibly leading to some species extinctions.

Climate change leads to species extinctions and exponentially so: the loss of biodiversity is set to accelerate under continuation of global average temperature rise.

The phenomenon appears to offer a natural solution to climate change, which experts fear could lead to a rise in sea level, flooding, and extinction of species.