Eutrophication, microbial-sulfate reduction and mass extinctions by Martin Schobben, Alan Stebbins, Abbas Ghaderi, Harald Strauss, Dieter Korn, Christoph Korte

“…In post-Cambrian time, life on Earth experienced 5 major extinction events, likely instigated by adverse environmental conditions. …”
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Mass Extinctions and Their Relationship With Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration: Implications for Earth's Future by W. Jackson Davis

“…Over the last 534 million years (Myr), 50 extinction events present as peaks of genus loss‐and‐recovery cycles, each spanning ∼3–40 Myr. …”
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Ethical Values and Biological Diversity: A Preliminary Assessment Approach  by Joel I. Cohen

“…There have been five major extinction events over geological time. However, the current rate of extinction or reduction of species and their habitats is directly related to anthropomorphic causes. …”
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Selectivity of mass extinctions: Patterns, processes, and future directions by Jonathan L. Payne, Jood A. Al Aswad, Curtis Deutsch, Pedro M. Monarrez, Justin L. Penn, Pulkit Singh

“…The calibration of physiology-based models to past extinction events will enhance their value in prediction and mitigation efforts related to the current biodiversity crisis.…”
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Tafofácies, correlação estratigráfica e paleoambientes em uma nova seção Devoniana na Bacia do Paraná (PR, Brasil). e2322740 by Elvio Pinto Bosetti, Kevin William Richter, Luana Oliveira, Isabelle de Siqueira Tavares, Iniwara Kurovski Pereira, Gabrieli Goltz, Daniel Sedorko

“…The research resulted in the interpretation of facies from a marine environment influenced by storms in a situation of ecological stress established immediately before the Kačák extinction event…”
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Diversification of African Rainforest Restricted Clades: Piptostigmateae and Annickieae (Annonaceae) by Baptiste Brée, Andrew J. Helmstetter, Kévin Bethune, Jean-Paul Ghogue, Bonaventure Sonké, Thomas L. P. Couvreur

“…We then undertook several diversification analyses focusing on Piptostigmateae to infer variation in speciation and extinction rates, and test the impact of extinction events. Speciation in both tribes dated to the Pliocene and Pleistocene. …”
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Biogeography of the stony corals (Scleractinia) of the Mexican pacific by H Reyes-Bonilla, A López-Pérez

“…There is no evidence of effective biogeographic barriers throughout the Mexican Pacific region. Local extinction events, likely caused by the narrow distribution of some species, and perhaps due to the type and frequency of transpacific colonizations, modify the normal processes of community succession, causing the Mexican Pacific to be a highly dynamic zone in terms of its coral fauna. …”
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The Future of the Extinction Plot by Joshua Schuster

“…Butler’s novel examines issues central to biopolitics and animal studies that appear specifically at the threshold of extinction events.  This essay discusses the ways her novel calls upon the reader to think self-reflexively about how extinction and genetic knowledge intertwine in contemporary cultural and scientific debates about the decline of biodiversity. …”
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Scaling laws in the evolutionary processes of marine animals over the last 540 million years by Haitao Shang

“…However, whether such patterns existed in deep-time biological systems is less investigated; the best-known example is the scaling law between the frequency and size of extinction events. Here, I show that the variation rates of biodiversity, origination intensity, extinction intensity, and body size of marine animals during the last 540 million years exhibited scaling laws. …”
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Geological duration of ammonoids controlled their geographical range of fossil distribution by Ryoji Wani

“…These relationships were somewhat blurred in the Devonian, Carboniferous, Triassic, and Jurassic, which is possibly due to (1) the course of development of a reproductive strategy with smaller hatchling sizes in the Devonian and (2) the high origination rates after the mass extinction events.…”
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Out of Time at the La Brea Tar Pits: People and Other Animals in a Time Capsule of Ice Age Los Angeles by Alison Laurence

“…While La Brea exclusively exhibits extinct animal models in the park, leading some visitors to see extinction events as existing at a safe distance, the asphalt continues to entrap contemporary creatures and functions as a change-over-time capsule. …”
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Macroevolutionary constraints on global microbial diversity by Ford J. Fishman, Jay T. Lennon

“…Additional simulations suggest that mass extinction events do not place hard limits on modern‐day microbial diversity. …”
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Upholding science-based risk assessment under a weakened Endangered Species Act by Nicolas J. Muñoz, Debora S. Obrist

“…As global extinction rates approach those observed during the five mass extinction events in Earth’s history (Barnosky et al. 2011), robust, well-implemented conservation laws are critically needed to slow the loss of biodiversity (Westwood et al. 2019; Leclère et al. 2020).…”
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A review of recent and future marine extinctions by Pablo del Monte-Luna, Miguel Nakamura, Alba Vicente, Lilian B. Pérez-Sosa, Arturo Yáñez-Arenas, Andrew W. Trites, Salvador E. Lluch-Cota

“…A review of current methods being used to determine the loss of biodiversity from the world’s oceans reveals the need to develop and apply new assessment methodologies that incorporate standardized metrics that allow comparisons to be made among different regions and taxonomic groups, and between current extinctions and past mass extinction events. Such efforts will contribute to a better understanding of extinction risk facing marine flora and fauna, as well as the ways in which it can be mitigated.…”
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Inventory of land snails from Boquerones, Ciego de Avila, Cuba by Félix Jonathan Pereira-Miller

“…The highest biodiversity values were observed in the Mogote Vegetation Complex being of 2,856 according to Shannon-Wiener (H´) index. So far species extinction events are not seen but not discarded for the future due to a decline in local rainfall during the last 15 years as well as human activities such as agriculture and local tourism.…”
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Inferring extinction in North American and Hawaiian birds in the presence of sighting uncertainty by David L. Roberts, Ivan Jarić

“…For most species the timing of extinction events is uncertain, occurring sometime after the last sighting. …”
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A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago by Cooper, A, Turney, CSM, Palmer, J, Hogg, A, McGlone, M, Wilmshurst, J, Lorrey, AM, Heaton, TJ, Russell, JM, McCracken, K, Anet, JG, Rozanov, E, Friedel, M, Suter, I, Peter, T, Muscheler, R, Adolphi, F, Dosseto, A, Faith, JT, Fenwick, P, Fogwill, CJ, Hughen, K, Lipson, M, Liu, J, Nowaczyk, N, Rainsley, E, Bronk Ramsey, C, Sebastianelli, P, Souilmi, Y, Stevenson, J, Thomas, Z, Tobler, R, Zech, R

“…We find that geomagnetic field minima ~42 ka, in combination with Grand Solar Minima, caused substantial changes in atmospheric ozone concentration and circulation, driving synchronous global climate shifts that caused major environmental changes, extinction events, and transformations in the archaeological record.…”

The subtribes and genera of the tribe Listroderini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Cyclominae): Phylogenetic analysis with systematic and biogeographical accounts by Juan Morrone

“…Geographical paralogy, particularly evident in the Subantarctic subregion of the Andean region, suggests that Listroderini are an ancient Gondwanic group, in which several extinction events might have obscured relationships among the areas.…”
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treats: A modular R package for simulating trees and traits by Thomas Guillerme

“…These evolutionary processes can then be nearly infinitely modified to include complex processes that affect the simulations such as traits co‐evolution, competition mechanisms or mass extinction events. Here I present the treats package, a modular R package for trees and traits simulations. …”
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A second species of the pill millipede genus Nearctomeris Wesener, 2012 (Diplopoda, Glomerida) from the Great Smoky Mountains, USA by Ernesto Recuero, Michael S. Caterino

“…Our results suggest that the observed low diversity of the group in the eastern US is likely caused by extinction events, but it is also possible that new species are yet to be found. …”
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