Sentence examples for recorded extinction from inspiring English sources

Habitat change is a major driver of species distribution and persistence, but there have been few recorded extinction events for terrestrial mammals across Canada.

In the first stage of the study, the researchers generated beams of silver particles with mean diameters of 2, 3.5, and 4 nm, determined the particle size distribution for one of the beams, recorded extinction spectra, and estimated parameter A=0.25 of the phenomenological formula Γ=Γ b+A v F/R, where Γ b is the bulk-metal relaxation rate, for silver spheres in vacuum.

It is also the first recorded extinction of a mammal anywhere in the world thought to be primarily due to human-caused climate change.

And while the low figures for recorded extinctions look like underestimates of the full tally, that does not make the high estimates right.

The results are incompatible with the observed family-level extinction patterns, as family-level extinction intensity is significantly higher in the randomizations (recorded Antarctic extinction: 20 families; mean random extinction: 25±1.5 families; 95% CI calculated as 1.96*standard deviation of randomized extinction).

"Significantly, this probably represents the first recorded mammalian extinction due to anthropogenic climate change," the researchers said in their report, quietly published on the Queensland government's website last week.

Roughly 40% of all bee species are in decline or threatened with extinction, and by the final section of this book Hanson's sense of wonder has rubbed off on us so that his meeting with an entomologist who recorded the extinction of a bumblebee really hits home.

Now, Chase said, "I feel as though the only good I'm doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth".

"When I started on this project, hoping that I could leave people inspired and motivated with some good news about the fate of elephants, [now] I feel as though the only good I'm doing is recording the extinction of one of the most magnificent animals that ever walked the earth," Chase said.

The distinction between the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic is made at the end of the Permian in recognition of the largest mass extinction recorded in the history of life on Earth.

The length of the pulse is defined as time-of-flight (TOF), while the total area under the pulse is recorded as optical extinction (EXT) [9].