May 18, 2011 – Calculated predictions of extinction rates due to habitat loss may grossly overestimate the true rates of extinction. New methods are needed .

The ongoing extinction of individual species due to environmental or ecological factors such as climate change, disease, loss of habitat, or competitive .

May 23, 2011 – A team of scientists claims that a widely-used formula for calculating whether certain plant and animal species are becoming extinct is .

May 18, 2011 – The most widely used methods for calculating species extinction rates are “ fundamentally flawed” and overestimate extinction rates by as .

Only recently have extinctions been recorded and scientists have become alarmed at the high rates of recent extinctions. Most species that become extinct .

May 18, 2011 – Current extinction rate projections may be overestimating the role of habitat loss on species, a study suggests.

Oct 29, 2010 – Members states also agreed that rich and poor nations would share profits from pharmaceutical or other products derived from genetic .

Background extinction rate, also known as 'normal extinction rate', refers to the standard rate of extinction in earth's geological and biological history .

It isn't possible to gather data non-stop in every location around the world, and the estimated extinction rate greatly exceeds the number of known species .

May 19, 2011 – A controversial study suggests that current extinction rate projections of animal and plant species may be overestimating the role of .

Nov 17, 2004 – Current extinction rates are at least 100 to 1000 times higher than natural rates found in the fossil record, the report stated. .

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We are surely in the midst of a mass extinction. Even though it's hard to compare past extinction rates with that of the present, given missing data from .

May 19, 2010 – "We continue to lose biodiversity at a rate never before seen in history. Extinction rates may be up to 1000 times higher than the .

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Feb 1, 2005 – Scientists say wildlife extinction rates are soaring. The die-off, they claim, threatens the planet's web of life or biodiversity which .

May 19, 2011 – A recent study suggests the methods for determining a species extinction rate may be too simplistic. Although many factors that affect .

May 19, 2011 – Fundamental Flaws Exist in Species Extinction Rate Estimates.

Mar 2, 2004 – The average extinction rate is now some 1000 to 10000 times faster than the rate that prevailed over the past 60 million years. .

Given the average species lifespan for mammals, the background extinction rate for this group would be approximately one species lost every 200 years. .

May 19, 2011 – A controversial study in the journal Nature suggests that current extinction rate projections of animal and plant species may be .

ii) On the other hand, extinction rates are currently very high – much . i) Current extinction rates are similar to those found during the past five mass .

Jan 10, 2002 – Half of all living bird and mammal species will be gone within 200 or 300 years, according to a botany professor at The University of Texas .

Mar 8, 2010 – The world's animals and plants are being killed off by humans faster than new ones can evolve, for the first time since dinosaurs became .

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May 19, 2011 – By Margaret Munro Species are not going to go extinct nearly as fast as predicted, a new report says. The study, co-authored by Fangliang He .

Life on Earth Disappearing-- Unprecedented Extinction Rate -- 2007 Red List ( U.K. Telegraph-- 2007) · Global Warming Threatens Extinction of One Million .

Any absolute estimate of extinction rate, such as extinctions per year, requires knowledge of how many species there are. Unfortunately, this number is not .

Mar 2, 2011 – The team's estimate for the average extinction rate for mammals is less than two extinctions every million years, far lower than the current .

May 18, 2011 – The most widely used methods for calculating species extinction rates are " fundamentally flawed" and overestimate extinction rates by as .

You've probably heard the stat that extinction rates are currently somewhere between 100-1000 times historic levels, which is bad enough, but now the .

Mar 9, 2010 – Extinction Rate Fastest on Record, Conservationists Warn.

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Apr 2, 2007 – The current extinction rate of plant and animal species is around 1000 times faster than it was in pre-human times - and this will increase .

May 17, 2004 – One of the claims of large extinction rates concerns insects in the Amazon, and it based on the fact that many species are being discovered .

May 27, 2011 – Scientists fine-tune extinction rate projections. The journal Nature recently reported that modern methods of measuring animal populations .

The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1000 and 10000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. .

May 20, 2011 – A paper casting doubt on a widely used method of calculating extinction rates has fuelled furious debate in scientific circles, .

The extinction rate of today may be 1000 to 10000 times the biological normal, or background, extinction rate of 1-10 species extinctions per year. .

Mar 10, 2010 – We've almost certainly crossed a dire threshold. According to some scientists, we're destroying 10000 times faster than creatures can adapt.

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May 21, 2011 – Scientists using a new method to calculate the rate of extinction say the crisis is being overestimated by as much as 160%. .

May 20, 2011 – A projected rate of extinctions of animals and plants this century may be less dramatic than feared because the most widely used scientific .

May 23, 2011 – A recent paper in Nature makes a claim that is not likely true about extinction rates.

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Mar 7, 2010 – "Measuring the rate at which new species evolve is difficult, but there's no question that the current extinction rates are faster than that .

May 18, 2011 – Ecologists routinely overestimate the rate at which animal and plant species go extinct as their habitat is destroyed because a widely used .

Species are currently going extinct at a faster rate than at any time in the past with the exception of cataclysmic encoders with extraterrestrial objects. .

May 18, 2011 – Species are being driven to extinction – but perhaps not as rapidly as we thought, because of a mathematical error that has gone unnoticed .

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