Sentence examples for driver of extinction from inspiring English sources

By 2050, they believe climate change could replace land-conversion as the main driver of extinction.

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

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.

They continue: "Without examples of conservation succeeding, hopelessness could itself emerge as a driver of extinction". And there are successes: in Brazil, for example, the rate of Amazon deforestation is down to one-third of its 2004 peak.

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.

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.

Many scientists believe that a mass extinction event is already underway as a result of human activities (the "Holocene extinction") and that climate change is and will be a significant driver of extinctions.

Ducatez, S. & Shine, R. Drivers of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates.

One of the main drivers of extinction is habitat loss that arises when tropical rainforests are converted to farms -- a trend that is escalating at a dramatic rate.

Our assessment shows amphibian declines are likely to accelerate over the next decades, as multiple drivers of extinction could jeopardise their populations more than previous, mono-causal assessments have suggested".

One important function of the study is to highlight the pet trade as an emerging threat facing many birds and other wildlife, one that can act independently from other drivers of extinction such as habitat loss, said senior author David Wilcove, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in the Wilson School.