Sentences with phrase «biological extinction»

While this could be a possibility, others argue that true biological extinction likely won't happen in the next few decades, as other countries are able to grow it as well.

«Listing species that are not under the threat of biological extinction diverts resources away from species genuinely at risk.

Across the event 93.9 million years ago, a major biological extinction in the marine realm has already been documented.

In a new review of scientific literature and analysis of data published in Science, an international team of scientists cautions that the loss and decline of animals is contributing to what appears to be the early days of the planet's sixth mass biological extinction event.

While they can and do become overfished, the resulting loss of return on investment for fishermen prevents them from driving commercial fish stocks toward biological extinction.»

«Unlike these other species, fish and seafood stocks are not generally threatened with biological extinction.

Most biologists believe that a sixth great biological extinction is now underway.

The large uncertainty about the timing of spiral arm crossings and the associated CRF maxima is corroborated by the fact that another recent paper -LRB-[Leitch and Vasisht, 1998]-RRB-, which uses the spiral arm crossings to explain biological extinctions, places these crossings at completely different times.

Although different processes may have given rise to the diversification of languages, cultures, and species in different areas, similar forces currently appear to be driving biological extinctions and cultural / linguistic homogenization.

Last month he went a lot farther, directly invoking imagery from the Holocaust in discussing how warming would cause a mass of biological extinctions.

A UC Riverside - led team of researchers has quantified the toxic ocean conditions during a major biological extinction 93.9 million years ago.

The white abalone, once an important commercial species along the southern California coast, may be close to biological extinction.

There's not only an extinction of species, it's not only a biological extinction as Gustav Metzger pointed out — to whom we could actually dedicate this program because he very sadly passed away a couple of months ago.

The Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has blamed «biological extinction» on global warming, which results from «rich countries» use of fossil fuels.»

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

Paleoclimate + genetic study confirms: Arctic species adapted to sea ice changes Guest essay by Dr. Susan Crockford A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers:...