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The Holocene extinction, or Anthropocene extinction, [3] [4] is the ongoing extinction event caused by humans during the Holocene epoch. These extinctions span numerous families of plants [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and animals, including mammals , birds, reptiles, amphibians , fish, and invertebrates , and affecting not just terrestrial species but also ...
1926 [ 415 ] Extermination campaign. The Great Plains wolf has been later determined to be continuous morphologically [ 410 ] and genetically [ 416 ] with the still existing Mexican wolf, which would use the name C. l. nubilus if placed in the same subspecies, due to being the older one. Red-moustached fruit dove.
The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, [104] [105] is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity.
Map of Asia. This is a list of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [ a ] and continues to the present day. [ 1 ] This list includes the Asian continent and its surrounding islands, including Cyprus.
Extinction Date Probable causes [2] Quaternary: Holocene extinction: c. 10,000 BC – Ongoing: Humans [3] Quaternary extinction event: 640,000, 74,000, and 13,000 years ago: Unknown; may include climate changes, massive volcanic eruptions and Humans (largely by human overhunting) [4] [5] [6] Neogene: Pliocene–Pleistocene boundary extinction: 2 Ma
Map of Europe. This is a list of European species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) A and continues to the present day. 1. This list includes the European continent and its surrounding islands.
Holocene climatic optimum. The Holocene Climate Optimum (HCO) was a warm period in the first half of the Holocene epoch, that occurred in the interval roughly 9,500 to 5,500 years BP, [ 1 ] with a thermal maximum around 8000 years BP. It has also been known by many other names, such as Altithermal, Climatic Optimum, Holocene Megathermal ...
In climatology, the 8.2 kiloyear event was a sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred approximately 8,200 years before the present, or c. 6,200 BC, and which lasted for the next two to four centuries. It defines the start of the Northgrippian age in the Holocene epoch.