Sentences with phrase «rapid extinction»

The timing and cause of rapid extinctions of the megafauna has remained a mystery for centuries.

These days they are increasingly hemmed in by human development, so future temperature shifts are likely to cause even more rapid extinctions.

«Our results are consistent with recent paleontological studies that now point to a very rapid extinction event.»

Reconstructed dynamics of rapid extinctions of chaparral - requiring birds in urban habitat islands.

It is even more difficult to provide convincing evidence of the dangers to life caused by the rapid extinction of species and by other forms of ecological damage.

But it may lead to a livable one in which starvation and pestilence and genocide, the rapid extinction of species, and others of the most appalling evils of our own time will not be so prominent.

I was staunchly against Cry it Out / «rapid extinction», but we were beyond exhausted so we tried it.

This downward trend in the abundance of forest mast paired with increased hunting by these same humans may then have combined to trigger the passenger pigeon's rapid extinction.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

I honestly think she's too young to be listening to me going on and on about such confusing stuff as oil, gas, coal, greenhouse effect, global warming, manmade climate change, population explosion (she knows about it), deforestation, desertification, rapid extinction of other species, pollution, problems, overconsumption, overindustrialization, problems, politics, economics, consumerism, and problems, religion, war, etc., etc., etc..

He wrote «TWT [Tasmanian wedge tailed] eagles are being killed in significant numbers at the Woolnorth wind farm» and «the species is now condemned to rapid extinction».

Climate change, deforestation, overgrazing, fisheries collapse, food insecurity, and the rapid extinction of species are all part of a single, over-arching problem: Humanity is simply demanding more from the Earth than in can provide.

The litany of environmental bad news — rapid extinction of species, pollution, depleted food sources — can be overwhelming, but there's hope too.