{"id":4995,"date":"2016-11-04T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2016-11-04T11:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:45:10","slug":"fossil-data-can-provide-warning-for-the-risk-of-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/fossil-data-can-provide-warning-for-the-risk-of-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil data can provide warning for the risk of extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3546\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3546\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3546\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Anticosti-fossils.png\" alt=\"Fossils like these from Quebec\u2019s Anticosti Island have shed light on the world\u2019s first mass extinction. New study shows that data from such fossils can be used to determine extinction risks. (Photo credit: Andr\u00e9 Desrochers)\" width=\"400\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Anticosti-fossils.png 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Anticosti-fossils-300x147.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fossils from Quebec\u2019s Anticosti Island have shed light on the world\u2019s first mass extinction. New study shows that data from such fossils can be used to determine future extinction risks. (Photo credit: Andr\u00e9 Desrochers)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are numerous contributing factors in the extinction of ocean dwellers. These causes can be difficult to assess in a timely manner. A new study uses fossil data to establish a strong association between the history of geographic distribution of marine species and their extinction risk. Kiessling and colleagues suggest using fossil occupancy trajectories to build a numerical model, which can help identify modern species at unrealized extinction risk.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Kiessling, \u00c1d\u00e1m T. Kocsis<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Wolfgang Kiessling,\u00a0GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Department of Geography and Geosciences, Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg, Loewenichstra\u00dfe 28, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/12\/10\/20150813\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in <em>Biology Letters<\/em> on October 18, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous contributing factors in the extinction of ocean dwellers. These causes can be difficult to assess in a timely manner. A new study uses fossil data to establish a strong association between the history of geographic distribution of marine species and their extinction risk. Kiessling and colleagues suggest using fossil occupancy trajectories to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2658,1938,2659,2657],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-extinction-risk","tag-fossils","tag-geographical-occupancy","tag-palaeobiology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Anticosti-fossils.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}