Sentences with phrase «of extinction drivers»

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.

In order of numbers of species affected the top - 10 of extinction drivers is: 1.

Not exact matches

You are directly affected by * soemone * having knowledge of evolution when you consume all agricultural products (meat, veggies, fruits), go to the doctor, see a geneticist for counseling before having a child, take medication, or are impacted by poilicies concerning environmental change, which is a driver for forcing adaptation vs extinction.

Traditional taxi drivers in two of Ghana's robust economic capitals, Accra and Tamale, capital of the Northern Region, face an identical challenge, which may soon see them driven into extinction.

«New driver of extinction: Adaptations for sexual selection: Museum collections help scientists understand the role of sexual selection in extinction.»

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.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Obtaining detailed environmental records from this time can help us find the drivers of the subsequent extinctions of many of these large marsupials.»

This further evidence of episodic emissions of volcanic CO2 as the likely driver of the extinction enhances our understanding of this event, and potentially of other climate change episodes in Earth's history.»

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.

Biological invasions are among the greatest drivers of species extinctions worldwide and can cause severe impairments of ecosystem services, imposing huge economic costs on society.

«Predation by foxes and feral cats is the key driver of extinctions, so we need to change what we've previously done and look at if the dingo can help,» said Dr Thomas Newsome of the University of Sydney, the report's lead author.

Feral cats are a major driver of global biodiversity loss, contributing to 26 % of bird, mammal and reptile extinctions.

Cats are among the most successful and damaging invaders on islands and a significant driver of extinction and endangerment.

Using Technology to Alert Drivers to Animals on the Road We recently covered the top five roadkill sites in America, as well as a dire IUCN report stating that «25 % of all the world's mammal species are at risk of extinction.»

I can not claim mastery of the equations being debated here, but I find the focus on habitat loss as the driver of extinction to be narrow minded.

Another indication of the synergy between extinction drivers: the «interaction potential» between major threat classes.

Anthropogenic climate change is currently affecting 19 percent of species that are listed as threatened or near - threatened — making it the 7th extinction driver.

These experts again found no support for the Pounds» global warming hypothesis.22 So much for Pounds» forceful storytelling and his «very high confidence» (> 99 %, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) that global warming was the driver of amphibian extinctions.

Climate change is just one driver of the Holocene - Anthropocene Mass Extinction.

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).

Most of these species are unknown, and even for the ones we know about, we have very little information about their current population size and distribution, life cycle habitat needs, extinction drivers, and mechanisms to eliminate these drivers as soon as possible.

Earth is home to many billions of species — a majority of which will be affected by the unfolding Anthropocene Mass Extinction, of which anthropogenic climate change is one of the major, synegistic drivers.

In this series we're trying to investigate the role of climate change as one several drivers of the global extinction crisis.

[6] It has been shown that past climatic change has been a major driver of the processes of speciation and extinction.

A critical consideration is that the biotic pressures induced by climate change will interact with other well - known anthropogenic drivers of extinction to amplify what are already elevated extinction rates.

Several authors suggest that the extinction crisis is already so severe, even without climate change included as a driver, that a mass extinction of species is plausible within decades to centuries.

There is much other research on this as well (e.g., Brooks» paper on extinction drivers) and common sense that a very high percentage of Earth's population and infrastructure are tied to assumptions about stability of climate and sea level.

An analysis of IUCN's Red List of endangered species places 10 drivers of the Holocene - Anthropocene Mass Extinction in order of severity.