Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A outlook from the world of amphibians

Introduction

Many species of amphibians are capable of entombing themselves rapidly in the ground. Substantial clues suggests that an extinction happening is underway. The Holocene extinctions were greater than appeared in the Pleistocene, especially with respect to large terrestrial vertebrates. As in previous extinction events, climate is considered to have played an important function, but humans may have had compounding effects. The overkill hypothesis envisions these extinctions as being exactly human-related.(Wake, 213) Because naive prey was largely eliminated, extinction rates decreased. Extinctions were less deep in ...