coextinctions

"If, as we suggest, many coextinctions are occurring, it is hard to know just how to act in order to better conserve those dependent species," Dunn says.

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Like other types of extinction, Dunn said habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change can accelerate coextinctions.

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"Although tens or even hundreds of thousands of coextinctions … are predicted on the basis of coextinction models, few recent coextinctions have been empirically documented," the paper's authors write.

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The unknown role of coextinctions in the current extinction crisis

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The first is that coextinctions may be occurring at the levels predicted-one model estimated 56 coextinctions could occur from just five extinctions of North American mammals-but these coextinctions have gone largely unnoticed.

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Despite such recognition, however, the role of coextinctions remains largely mysterious and little-studied.

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A new paper attempts to address this by settling what is known (and unknown) about the phenomenon of coextinctions and where research needs to go next.

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Several studies have shown that coextinctions should be widespread.

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These two factors-less appealing (equaling less support from the general public) and more difficult to study (so fewer scientists working with them) - would be the reasons why species disappearing due to coextinctions have gone unnoticed for so long.

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Studying coextinctions often depends upon studying organisms that are less warm and fuzzy than pandas (not quite cold and slimy, but you get the picture).

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