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.
But the couple worries they have front row seats to
the extinction of rare species they love.
Rumour has it that a European Community directive designed to promote competition in public services could lead to
the extinction of many of Britain's research laboratories.
The extinction of the dinosaurs, for instance, is thought to have been brought on by a mega-collision at the end of the Cretaceous period.
«Long - necked marine animals disappear with
the extinction of the plesiosaurs.
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Extinction of Alpine plants may remain undetectable for a long time.»
But were largely wiped out in the mass
extinction of 250 million and, along with dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.
The late 1800s is when they were estimated to number at three to five billion and, from say, 1880 until — it only took from 1880 to 1914 to cause the entire
extinction of that species; the last one died in a zoo in Cincinnati in 1914.
«What's amazing,» said Norris, «is how quickly fish double, then triple in relative abundance to sharks after the extinction, suggesting that fish were released from predation or competition by
the extinction of other groups of marine life.»
The brown tree snake, for example, has been responsible for
the extinction of dozens of bird and lizard species on Guam, yet only minimal cost data are known.
J. Alan Pounds, a biologist at the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve and one of the researchers who originally put forward the argument that global warming played a role in
the extinction of the golden toad, disagrees with the paper's conclusions.
This idea helps explain how we started out as a small, apelike, herbivorous species 6 million years ago in tropical Africa, and after a history of origin and
extinction of species, what's left today is us: a single species all over the planet with an astonishing array of abilities to adjust.
«Shift in weaning age supports hunting - induced
extinction of Siberian woolly mammoths.»
The Chicxulub crater that has been linked to
the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago does not completely coincide with the solar system passing through the disc — but Randall says there are enough uncertainties that there still could be a link.
«The take - home message of the article is the urgency to collectively avoid an impending
extinction of the world's primates,» Estrada said.
It has been implicated in the decline or
extinction of up to 200 species of frogs alone; the IUCN has declared Bd to be «the worst infectious disease ever recorded among vertebrates in terms of the number of species impacted and its propensity to drive them to extinction.»
Interestingly, as the amount of nutrients gradually increased, the relationship between the strains, originally mutualistic, transitioned through multiple phases before devolving into competition, and even
extinction of one partner.
The time you spent in Italy helped you explain
the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Do I fear for
the extinction of the human species?
On land, the capacity of animals to carry nutrients away from concentrated «hotspots,» the team writes, has plummeted to eight percent of what it was in the past — before
the extinction of some 150 species of mammal «megafauna» at the end of the last ice age.
The extinction of large animals from tropical forests could make climate change worse — according to researchers at the University of East Anglia.
If humans played a role in
the extinction of the mammoths, then they had a hand in the climate change that followed.
The forams are almost gone, and that clear part of the rock represents the near mass
extinction of forams and other species.
We have increasing evidence of a decline in certain tree species as a result of the local
extinction of forest elephants.»
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Extinction of large animals could make climate change worse.»
«Bd is the first emerging disease shown to cause the decline or
extinction of scores of populations of amphibians not otherwise threatened around the world,» Goldberg said.
On evolutionary time scales, we know far less about the effects of
extinction of rare species, but we do know that evolution can amplify the effect of a species over time through its interactions on survival of other species.
However, researchers from the University of Bristol and the Chengdu Center of the China Geological Survey, have found that size played no role in
the extinction of fish during the largest mass extinction of all time.
«Fern fossil data clarifies origination and
extinction of species.»
So even though male Neandertals and female modern humans probably hooked up more than once over the ages, they may have been unable to produce many healthy male babies (such as the reconstruction of this Neandertal boy from fossils from Gibraltar)-- and, thus, hastened
the extinction of Neandertals.
A team of researchers, including scientists from the Pacific Biosciences Research Center (PBRC) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Howard University in Washington DC, and the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris, recently published the first rigorous assessment of
extinction of invertebrates in Hawai`i.
Fisher, who studies
the extinction of mastodons and mammoths, suggests some answers could lie in nitrogen isotopes in the Patagonian bones, which can record changes in an animal's diet and, thus, its environment.
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Extinction of fearful memories and
extinction of drug - seeking memories relies on the same substrate in the brain.
The climate became much drier causing the mass
extinction of many species within the dominant plant groups, such as horsetails and club mosses.
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.
«It seems possible that the reduction of native forests and associated insects after human colonization of the islands contributed not just to
the extinction of plants, birds, and invertebrates, but also to
the extinction of this endemic bat,» Howarth said.
The authors think that
the extinction of Synemporion keana may have been a direct or indirect result of human colonization of the islands and the invasive non-native species that accompanied human explorers and settlers.
Over the past half - billion years,
the extinction of species has followed that same power law.
Paradoxically,
the extinction of the Lord God Bird and the Tasmanian tiger spawned a conservation ethic that may have spared countless other species a similar fate.
Says Hákon Jónsson, PhD - student at the Centre for GeoGenetics, co-leading author of the study: «The recent near
extinction of the Przewalski's horse population resulted in the persistence of deleterious mutations in the population, following the same mechanism that once led to the accumulation of deleterious mutations in the genomes of domesticated horses.
In a video installation in one of the rooms, Lister connects
the extinction of mammoths with the fate of the elephant — over 20,000 of which are thought to have been killed illegally last year.
«The near
extinction of sea otters is one of the most dramatic examples of human - induced impacts to the structure and functioning of temperate nearshore marine ecosystems,» said Rebecca G. Martone, of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University.
New pollen and spore data from the Chinle Formation at the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, suggest that
a extinction of plants occurred between 213 and 217 million years ago in tandem with an extinction of several reptile groups.
Sinervo led a landmark study published in 2010 documenting the widespread
extinction of lizard populations around the world due to climate change.
Chris Thomas's take on the evolution and
extinction of species was wonderful (11 January, p 28).
The approximately 4 - ton, 30 - foot - long predator lived 67 million years ago during the end of the Cretaceous Period, an epoch marked by intense volcanic activity and
the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Now ««Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous - Tertiary Extinction» is considered... one of the most influential publications in earth sciences in the twentieth century,» Benton writes in When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass
Extinction of All Time.
Scientists still do not fully know the precise reasons for
the extinction of many species; it probably took place due to a combination of climate change and hunting by humans.
Many scientists believe this collision caused
the extinction of most dinosaurs, although some still argue that immense volcanic eruptions in India may also have played a role.
The team's finding of ancient ecological recovery from a forest fire will help broaden scientists» understanding of biodiversity immediately before the mass
extinction of dinosaurs.