Illustration of mammals (IMAGE)
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An illustration featuring mammalian herbivores (green), omnivores (purple), invertivores (yellow) and carnivores (red). Each column includes mammal species lost in the past 2.58 million years (light shade); those expected to be lost in the near future (medium shade, probability of extinction >50%); and those likely to persist (dark shade, probability of extinction <20%). Human-related extinctions of the largest herbivores and carnivores are disrupting what appears to be a fundamental feature of past and present ecosystems, says a new study from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and institutions on four continents.
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Julius Csotonyi / Nature Ecology and Evolution
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