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Mass Extinction

The 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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Radiometric 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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by Twila
Thu May 28, 2009 3:22 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Radiometric dating of rocks
Replies: 2
Views: 411

Role of animals in the ecosystem

Mass 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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by onetruecathal
Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:38 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Role of animals in the ecosystem
Replies: 6
Views: 1309

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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by futurezoologist
Tue Feb 24, 2009 12:27 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Role of animals in the ecosystem
Replies: 6
Views: 1309

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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by alextemplet
Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:32 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Anthropogenic global warming?
Replies: 184
Views: 23513

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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by Draco
Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:41 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: Stromatolites
Replies: 0
Views: 860
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