Sentence examples for extinct ecosystems from inspiring English sources

For paleontologists, the high fidelity of the Yellowstone death assemblage to the source community strengthens confidence in the ecological information recovered from deeper-time fossil deposits, which is critical to understanding extinct ecosystems and using them to test for general principles of ecological dynamics.

The process involves the reintroduction of Pleistocene megafauna or their closest modern relatives into large tracts of enclosed land, in an attempt to re-establish now-extinct ecosystems in approximation to how they functioned before substantial human interference.

Acidophilic organisms thriving in such habitats could have been an integral part of a possibly widely extinct Martian ecosystem, but remains might possibly even exist today in protected subsurface niches.

Body size is an important biological descriptor, and as a result, is critical to understanding the paleobiology of extinct organisms and ecosystems.

Wildman and Andersen emphasize that if sharks become extinct, the entire ecosystem will collapse.

Indeed, from wherever these sharks were harvested, the fact remains that shark populations have plummeted in the Gulf of California to the point where a local shark biologist, Dr. James Ketchum, is saying hammerheads are "ecosystem extinct," i.e.e

At some point in the Late Cretaceous, Siats went extinct, clearing the ecosystem of its top predator and giving tyrannosaurs the room to evolve into giants like the recently discovered Lythronax and T. rex.

Shapiro points out that ecosystems are not static and have continued to change since these animals went extinct.

More than 90% of marine species went extinct, and land-based ecosystems suffered almost as much.

To address whether benefits of reinstating extinct species to historic ecosystems outweigh risks to extant species outside their historic range will require extensive ecological, social and economic analyses that extend beyond that conducted to-date for this potentially transformational conservation tool.

All these adorable ducks are going extinct and our entire ecosystem is in peril.