Sentences with phrase «bird extinctions»

Stuart Pimm of Duke University and his colleagues analyzed current estimates of bird extinction rates.

Are rats more likely to cause bird extinctions on smaller, colder, or wetter islands than on other types of islands?

Pimm, S. L. & Askins, R. A. Forest losses predict bird extinctions in eastern North America.

July 5, 2006, Bird Extinction Estimates May Be Too Low, by David Biello.

Also, the new report calls Hawaii the «bird extinction capital of the world,» as 71 species have gone extinct there since people first arrived in 300 C.E., and 10 species have not been seen in 40 years.

Cats have caused bird extinctions around the globe, especially those introduced to islands.

Traditionally, we might assume that eradicating cats and rats would always reduce bird extinctions.

One reference used to support this (Pimm and Askins) uses a species - area relationship to predict 4.5 bird extinctions following deforestation in Eastern North America and then notices that four species went extinct and one is threatened.

68: 1061 - 1078 Brooks, T. M., Pimm, S. L., & Oyugi, J. O. Time lag between deforestationand bird extinction in tropical forest fragments.

FEARS that bird extinction could have devastating effects on plant populations are being realised.

Regarding climate change, & bird extinction.