Saturday, April 6, 2024

Holocene extinction (Anthropocene extinction) (6th extinction) (negativity vs vitality)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Extinction:_An_Unnatural_History

https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/what-is-the-sixth-mass-extinction-and-what-can-we-do-about-it

https://nerdfighteria.info/v/XdkSo6UqiPA/

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-mass-extinction-and-are-we-facing-a-sixth-one.html

Extinction event



An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp fall in the diversity and abundance of multicellular organisms. It occurs when the rate of extinction increases with respect to the background extinction rate[1] and the rate of speciation. Estimates of the number of major mass extinctions in the last 540 million years range from as few as five to more than twenty. These differences stem from disagreement as to what constitutes a "major" extinction event, and the data chosen to measure past diversity.

The "Big Five" mass extinction 

Raup DM, Sepkoski JJ (March 1982). "Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record". Science215 (4539): 1501–1503