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How does the background extinction rate of a species influence how it will survive a mass extinction event?
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What does functional extinction mean?
Functional extinction means that there are not enough live animals (or animal protoplasm) of a certain species for the species to breed and survive.
How does mass extinction affect species that survive?
Every animal is a part of the food chain, so mass extinction can have very bad consequences for the species that survive. The surviving species must learn to work around the animal that has recently become extinct.
What is meat by extinction of animals?
Extinction of any species is caused by either the complete loss of all indivduals of the species, by the inability of the remaining individuals to successfully reproduce or by a reduced genepool that is not diverse enough for the species to survive long term or outside of controlled captivity. While some species have been brought back from the brink of extinction most of these species will not survive long term due to a diminished gene pool that cannot adapt to change. (logged out during edit again).
How the species can change?
Species can change is there is a mass extinction or if the type of species changed the type of climate or terrain which would would make the species evolve to its new environment so that it can survive.
Do you accept the ethical position that each species has the inherent right to survive without human influence?
Each species have every right to survive, if not only humans do interfere with them through deforestation, destruction of their natural habitats, and also poaching them as food and selling them in black market or making them as a pet. This has to stop to prevent them from extinction.
What are the main causes of the extinct species?
One of the main cause for the extinction of species is hunting. Some causes like climatic changes may also lead to the extinction in species. Extinction of Neanderthals is one good example of climatic changes. At that age in Europe the temperature dropped down and it was impossible to survive over there for the Neanderthals and therefore, the Neanderthals died making them one of the extinct species today.
How does mass extinction effect species that survive?
animals that depended on a species for a food source or some other need will not be able to get that need if that species is extinct, and will either have diffuculty surviving, or will go extinct.
How did the California condor survive its extinction?
Human intervention saved this species. Many were raised in captivity, and now around 400 are back in their former haunts.
What effects have mass extinctions had on history life?
Mass extinctions have the effect of eliminating a large number of species, which leaves a wide variety of niches open to new species. Whichever species survive the mass extinction quickly evolve into many new forms to fill the empty niches. The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event left niches open to the dinosaurs, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction eliminated dinosaurs, leaving niches open to mammals.
What impact does extinction have on your world?
Well, the extinction of the dinosaurs makes it a lot easier for people to survive.
Why do organisms go for extinction?
1) because of the people destroy their homes. 2) because of the people who kills them. 3) because of the other carniverous animal eat the other animal for them to have food in order to survive
Which would most likely be caused by environmental conditions?
Extinction is most likely to be caused by environmental conditions. Dramatic changes to the climate can mean that species are no longer adapted to survive.
