Sentence examples for a driver of extinction from inspiring English sources

Climate change — itself a driver of extinction — will also leave behind geological traces, as will deforestation, industrial pollution, and monoculture farming.

Ben Minteer, an ethicist at Arizona State University's school of life sciences and the lead author of the article, told NPR that he doesn't think scientific collecting is a leading driver of extinction – there would have to be millions of researchers bagging birds every day to match the job that climate change, habitat destruction and over-exploitation have done on at-risk populations.

Our results extend previous findings that higher trophic position is correlated with extinction risk in many vertebrates by showing that snake species that feed primarily on vertebrates are more sensitive to human land use – a primary driver of extinction.

This is an occult driver of extinction, invisibly constricting the available life space for creatures who we are also depriving of habitat.

Our data also support the resource-use hypothesis, which presumes the role of the degree of specialization in resources specifically related to particular biomes as a driver of differential speciation and extinction rates.

In the same way our data support the resource-use hypothesis, which stresses the role of the degree of specialization in resources specifically related to particular biomes as a driver of differential speciation and extinction rates.

Second, because the overall animation is based upon molecular evidence from extant orders, it may minimize the importance of extinction as a driver of macroevolutionary pattern.

The authors said the IUCN lists one other mammal that was driven to extinction, partly by extreme weather – the Little Swan Island hutia – but introduced cats on the island were considered the main driver of extinction.

"One driver of extinction is simply overhunting or overharvesting," Kolbert said.

Digital is a driver of the increase.

"It is a driver of growth.