After a given species has been thoroughly evaluated, it is placed into one of several categories. (The details of each have been condensed to highlight two or three of the category’s mostsalientpoints below.) In addition, three of the categories (CR, EN, and VU) are contained within the...
history of our planet, but these 5 were the big ones, determined by the sheer scale of death across both land and ocean. Eruption events, climate changes, and continental upheaval... there are so many flavors of things that can kill things, in combination with others or by the...
Modernanthropogenicclimate changeis anexistentialthreat to many organisms worldwide. Research suggests that global warming could cause a cascadingdomino effectof extinctions as species that rely on one another disappear (see alsotrophic cascade). In 2019 the Bramble Cay melomys, a species of rodent, ...
It is time to honor the man who created one of the most important and revolutionary animated series in modern television history. Rate S1.E28 ∙ And The Nominees Are...Sat, Dec 8, 2018 This year's Award season will be seeing an all out brawl with Superheroes, Video Game Villains and...
Spiders (Araneae) are one of the most species-rich orders on Earth today, and also have one of the longest geological records of any terrestrial animal gro... D Penney,JA Dunlop,YM Marusik - 《Zookeys》 被引量: 29发表: 2012年 Extinctions of vascular plants in Spain as extinct in previ...
In the 11th live episode of the #AskAbhijit show, Abhijit answers questions about the red giant Betelgeuse, the Big Bang Theory, Lord Buddha, the Turk Khilji, Schrödinger's cat, parallel universes, Japan's Meiji restoration, and more. Rate S1.E12 ∙ #AskAbhijit 12: World HistoryThu, ...
while our threat maps represent the impacts on extant species due to threats from human drivers, they omit impacts from pressures that have already led to extirpations or extinctions. For example, in Europe, where a large part of the original fauna has already been lost31, maps of accumulated...
Deforestation and bird extinctions in the Atlantic forest Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UKAndrew BalmfordDepartment of Animal and Plant Sciences, The University... T Brooks,J Tobias,A Balmford - 《Animal Conservation》...
Contrary to conventional knowledge, their study suggests that larger extinctions are not always a form of “creative destruction” that allows new organisms (生物体) to radiate and evolve. Instead, it suggests that mass extinction is rarely associated with new species of radiation. Dr. Hoyal ...
species—especially the prolific breeders—often flourish. They can destroy native plants, gobble up native animal populations and introduce disease, upending the delicate balance of organisms that provide food or support for each other, or provide a check on each other’s growth.Extinctionshave ...