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- Rise of the mammals. Schmidt, Karen // Earth;Oct96, Vol. 5 Issue 5, p20
Discusses the proliferation of mammals following the extinction of dinosaurs some 220 million years ago. Impact of supercontinent Pangea's breakup; Genetic imprints; Outcome of studies by evolutionary paleontologists at the Pennsylvania State University.
- Mystery of the missing mammals. Concar, David // New Scientist;10/29/94, Vol. 144 Issue 1949, p44
Presents causes of extinction of mammals in Australia. Climate changes; Damage done by agriculture on the environment; Animals affected by man-made changes; Efforts to restore the natural condition of ecological areas in the country. INSET: Where there's ants..
- Carriers of extinction. Zimmer, Carl // Discover;Jul95, Vol. 16 Issue 7, p28
Presents possible causes for the extinction of prehistoric mammals in North America. Global extinction rates; Humans blamed for infecting animals with a deadly pathogen; Prehistoric animal hunting; Animal movements across continents; Comments from paleontologists.
- HOW WILL WE LIVE WITHOUT THEM? Klinkenborg, Verlyn // New York Times Upfront;1/12/2009, Vol. 141 Issue 9, p29
The article comments on the extinction of a quarter of the world's mammals citing a global survey of mammal populations by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Barcelona, Spain. The survey concluded that at least a quarter of mammal species are headed toward extinction in...
- Wildlife decline logged. // Earth Island Journal;Autumn2002, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p12
Reports on the warning issued by Ethiopia's national Institute of Biodiversity Conservation and Research regarding the wildlife decline in the country. Number of mammals facing extinction; Number of bird species facing extinction; Number of Walia ibex remaining.
- Northern Mammals under Threat. // Australasian Science;Nov2010, Vol. 31 Issue 8, p13
The article focuses on a study by The Nature Conservancy indicating that the extinction of native mammals in Northern Australia in the next 20 years can be attributed to preying feral cats, over grazing and inappropriate fire regimes.
- Demise of the desert mammals Beckmann, Roger // Ecos;Autumn1990, Issue 63, p13
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- Influence of continental history on the ecological specialization and macroevolutionary processes in the mammalian assemblage of South America: Differences between small and large mammals. Bofarull, Ana Moreno; Royo, Ant�n Arias; Hern�ndez Fern�ndez, Manuel; Ortiz-Jaureguizar, Edgardo; Morales, Jorge // BMC Evolutionary Biology;2008, Vol. 8, Special section p1
Background: This paper tests Vrba's resource-use hypothesis, which predicts that generalist species have lower specialization and extinction rates than specialists, using the 879 species of South American mammals. We tested several predictions about this hypothesis using the biomic...
- Mammal Loss Increasing Problem In Western Parks. // National Parks;Mar/Apr87, Vol. 61 Issue 3/4, p7
Reports on national parks in western North America that have lost some species of mammals since their creation. Extirpations caused by loss of wildlife habitat; Elimination of species on adjacent lands because of development; Study conducted by University of Michigan researcher William Newmark,...
