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19 de sept. de 2007 · Indeed, Smith et al. (2006) found infectious disease to be an uncommon cause of extinction and critical endangerment for most plants and animals. Only 3.7% of 833 known species extinctions have been attributed in part or directly to infectious disease.
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They can broadly be considered as: (i) isolating uninfected...
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Examination of species with an evidence-based disease threat suggests that the proportion of species threatened by disease varies between IUCN status categories and significantly increases for amphibians, birds, and all of our species combined as these taxa travel down the road toward extinction (Fig. 1).
23 de ago. de 2005 · Infectious disease was listed as a contributing factor in <4% of species extinctions known to have occurred since 1500 (833 plants and animals) and as contributing to a species’ status as critically endangered in <8% of cases (2852 critically endangered plants and animals).
19 de oct. de 2012 · Research article. Disease and the dynamics of extinction. Hamish McCallum. Published: 19 October 2012 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0224. Abstract. Invading infectious diseases can, in theory, lead to the extinction of host populations, particularly if reservoir species are present or if disease transmission is frequency-dependent.
29 de may. de 2019 · May 29, 2019. • 7 min read. Extinction is a natural phenomenon: After all, more than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth aren’t alive today. But humans have made it worse,...
23 de nov. de 2022 · Here, I show that the sixth major mass extinction (defined as > 60% species loss) will be avoided, but a minor mass extinction, 20–50% animal species loss (1% now), will occur when humans cause...
