Sentence examples for highest extinction rate from inspiring English sources

"By conservative reckoning," Scott Weidensaul writes in his compelling new book, "the planet loses 3 or 4 species an hour, 80 or more a day, 30,000 a year -- the highest extinction rate in 65 million years".

Approximately 35% of echinoderm genera became extinct at the K Pg boundary, although taxa that thrived in low-latitude, shallow-water environments during late Cretaceous had the highest extinction rate.

Australia, with one of the highest extinction rates in the world is the only nation to keep a comprehensive list of threatened species.

However, Canellales and Piperales also share the highest extinction rates, making Laurales and Magnoliales the most productive orders in terms of net diversification.

An analysis of patterns of radiolarian extinction (Fig. 2) reveals a high extinction rate in the 1 Myr interval after the impact event.

Such a high extinction rate of radiolarians has not been recognized within the Norian interval23, and surprisingly, the magnitude of the extinction event is substantially higher than that of the radiolarian extinction at the TJB21.

This high extinction rate is largely due to the exponential growth in human numbers: from about 1 billion in 1850, the world's population reached 2 billion in 1930 and more than 6 billion in 2000, and it is expected to reach about 10 billion by 2050.

Monoicous groups accordingly had a higher extinction rate (μ0 = 182.49; μ1 = 294.11).

Our results also emphasize the potentially high extinction rate associated with ephemeral aquatic habitats.

Conditions favoring the occurrence of this second peak include high K, high extinction rate and fast recover rate.

For instance, an increase in the net diversification rate can be the result of an increased speciation rate in the absence of extinction or a high extinction rate in a constant rate birth-death process.