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Are Insects Heading Toward Their First Mass Extinction? Distinguishing Turnover From Crises in Their Fossil Record

2021-12-01

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Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss of species diversity happening now is often discussed as the ‘sixth mass extinction' in light of the ‘Big Five' mass extinctions in the fossil record. But insects, whose taxonomic diversity now appears to be threatened by human activity, have...

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Literature Corpus work: 76bddde0-60df-5303-ab26-12f56e6faf35
DOI: 10.1093/aesa/saaa042

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