The Sixth Extinction

By Lee Billings. 2014

368 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f5e44cfe7e1f56f17c05c2ae9f94548e1db92f5e

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Atmospheric Science

1. Phil J. Bouchet
2. D. Wagner
3. H. Kopnina
4. Yadvinder S. Malhi
5. R. Cowie
6. Benoît Fontaine

In Global and Planetary Change

1. Phil J. Bouchet
2. D. Wagner
3. H. Kopnina
4. Yadvinder S. Malhi
5. R. Cowie
6. Benoît Fontaine
7. M. Mckinney
8. Julian D. Olden

In Sociology and Political Science

1. D. Wagner
2. H. Kopnina
3. Yadvinder S. Malhi

Citations in the corpus

• The victims of unsustainability: a challenge to sustainable development goals (2016, background): “Biodiversity is diminishing, by some estimates, and it is likely that up to two-thirds of existing terrestrial species may be extinct by the end of this century (Kolbert 2014).”
• Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “The existence of most of the terrestrial vertebrates on this planet is supported by insect life directly or indirectly, and the diminishment of insect numbers would greatly accelerate the sixth great planetary extinction (98, 204–206).”
• The Concept of the Anthropocene (2017, background): “The frequent terming of this prospective mass extinction as the Sixth Extinction (39) emphasizes the magnitude and significance of contemporary changes in the biosphere on Earth system spatial scales and geological timescales.”
• The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, background): “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”
• The nature, significance, and influence of perceived personal experience of climate change (2020, neutral): “…personally significant, witnessing events, in this case of a grave, planet-altering, indeed existential risk (e.g., Future of Humanity Institute, 2016; Kolbert, 2006, 2014; Kramer, 2017; Reser & Bradley, 2017; Wallace-Wells, 2019; Wolfe & Tubi, 2018; Young, Sullivan, Stewart, & Palitsky, 2018).”