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We might not notice a 'mass' extinction

2026-04-09

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<h4>Background: </h4> There is overwhelming evidence that global change is having widespread, detrimental impacts on biodiversity. Population declines and local disappearances have been recorded with increasing frequency across all taxa, resulting in a steady rise in the number of threatened species. However, the number of documented extinctions remains counterintuitively low (~ 1000 species across all kingdoms) c...

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Literature Corpus work: 860faca5-a0ad-5ba7-834a-c23a7015ee21
DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.07.716927

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