The Sixth Extinction

By Niles Eldredge. 2001

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• Habitat fragmentation and biodiversity collapse in neutral communities (2004, background): “Human-caused habitat fragmentation precipitates biodiversity decline because it destroys species, disrupts community interactions, and interrupts evolutionary processes (Ehrlich and Ehrlich, 1981; Pimm et al., 1998; Leakey and Lewin, 1995; Levin, 1999).”
• The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, unknown): “In her book The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History , Elizabeth Kolbert (2014) presented the mounting evidence that the Earth is at the start of, or perhaps in the midst of, the sixth major episode of mass biodiversity extinction since life on Earth arose, the fi rst such event to be caused entire”