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Dictionary » M » Mass Extinction Mass ExtinctionThe death of one or more species in a relatively short time, usually as a result of environmental change or on a shorter scale, an environmental disaster. Mass extinctions have been noted in Earth's history due to the study of fossil records indicating their removal from existance. ![]()
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Results from our forumRadiometric dating of rocks... would the animals be able to adapt, the plants? would there be a mass extinction? and if so, how would we survive? he told me to take what scientist say and leave ...
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Role of animals in the ecosystemMass starvations? Hardly; growing sufficient food to feed the world is currently *hampered* ... flower would be needed to maintain standard crops. That's the real source of the nigh-extinction scenario. However, given a few years of developing GM crops that develop fruit even ...
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Re: Role of animals in the ecosystem... I'm going to assume you mean all animals. -First of all you have mass starvation(rice can only sustain a race for so long), -Bacteria(Kingdom:Monera) ... have to worry about insects carrying malaria. -After this human semi extinction plants high in protein(e.g oats) would then have to be produced ...
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Anthropogenic global warming?... raises another point, many scientists believe we are beginning to see a mass extinction in addition to climate change. We can change it, but from what I've seen of human ...
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Stromatolites... The reason for this may be due to a lack of grazing organisms after a mass extinction event or due to hyper salinity of the marine environment. Also, most of the Post-Precambrian ...
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