Background extinction rate, also known as the normal extinction rate, refers to the standard rate of extinction in Earth's geological and biological history...

organisms. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the background extinction rate and the rate of speciation. Estimates of the...

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loss to taxa that had a high background extinction rate (by implication, taxa with a high turnover). The extinction rate of marine organisms was catastrophic...

unrecorded. The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural background extinction rates and is increasing. During...

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the...

completely in the first extinction pulse. The Foliomena fauna was formerly widespread and resistant to background extinction rates prior to the Hirnantian...

lists of species and organisms that have become extinct. The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem...

though it still exists elsewhere. Local extinctions are contrasted with global extinctions. Local extinctions mark a change in the ecology of an area...

Bonsall, Michael B. (July 30, 2019). "An upper bound for the background rate of human extinction". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 11054. Bibcode:2019NatSR...911054S...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event...

De-extinction (also known as resurrection biology, or species revivalism) is the process of generating an organism that either resembles or is an extinct...

results found that the current extinction rate of amphibians could be 211 times greater than the background extinction rate. This estimate even goes up to...

the conservation status of major species groups, and measures trends in extinction risk over time. By conducting conservation assessments at regular intervals...

Functional extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that: It disappears from the fossil record, or historic reports of its existence...

protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary...

L. (April 2015). "Estimating the normal background rate of species extinction: Background Rate of Extinction" (PDF). Conservation Biology. 29 (2): 452–462...

of megafauna extinctions is progressively larger the further the human migratory distance from Africa, with the highest extinction rates in Australia...

reported that the extinction rate of frogs is increasing. Based on observed extinction rates far beyond expected background extinction rates, we can predict...

E-OG Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Eocene–Oligocene extinction event, also...

This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:   "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...

affected by extinction and speciation. The background extinction rate varies among taxa but it is estimated that there is approximately one extinction per million...

Extinction vortices are a class of models through which conservation biologists, geneticists and ecologists can understand the dynamics of and categorize...

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also cause extinction debt by reducing a species' birth rate or increasing its death rate so that its population slowly declines. Extinction debts may...

The extinction symbol represents the threat of holocene extinction on Earth; a circle represents the planet and a stylised hourglass is a warning that...

biodiversity is to maintain ecological function to prevent ecological extinction. Examples of species and subspecies that are extinct in the wild include...

Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Late Devonian extinction consisted of several...

times the planet's normal background rate, and that various studies found a similar, or possibly even faster extinction rate for insects. Wagner opines...