Sentences with phrase «between extinction drivers»
Another indication of the synergy between extinction drivers: the «interaction potential» between major threat classes.
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The researchers built a complex series of mathematical models to recreate the dynamic interaction between the main potential drivers of extinction (dingoes, climate and humans), the long - term response of herbivore prey, and the viability of the thylacine and devil populations.
As the two images directly above and below indicate there is (apart from indirect synergy) also direct synergy between the drivers — as the vast majority of threatened biodiversity (6,994 species out of 8,688 species — that's 81 percent) is impacted by multiple large groups of extinction drivers simultaneously.
The fossil record indicates that the past 100 years has seen species extinctions at 100 — 1,000 times the background rate (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), and among five drivers of global biodiversity loss between now and 2100 (climate change, land use change, atmospheric CO2 increases, nitrogen deposition, and species introductions), land use change — not climate change — is predicted to be the most important (Sala et al. 2000).