Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

Small mammal diversity loss in response to late-Pleistocene climatic change

(2010) Jessica L. Blois et al.   NATURE

Calcium isotope constraints on the end-Permian mass extinction

(2010) J. L. Payne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions

(2010) V. T. Vredenburg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

(2010) P. Schulte et al.   SCIENCE

The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates

(2010) M. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes

(2010) J. D. Archibald et al.   SCIENCE

Erosion of Lizard Diversity by Climate Change and Altered Thermal Niches

(2010) B. Sinervo et al.   SCIENCE

Scenarios for Global Biodiversity in the 21st Century

(2010) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Diversity dynamics: molecular phylogenies need the fossil record

(2010) Tiago B. Quental et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Re-assessing current extinction rates

(2009) Nigel E. Stork   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

(2009) Daniel L. Rabosky   EVOLUTION

Using phylochronology to reveal cryptic population histories: review and synthesis of 29 ancient DNA studies

(2009) UMA RAMAKRISHNAN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The K/Pg boundary at Brazos-River, Texas, USA — An approach by marine palynology

(2009) Michael L. Prauss   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Quantifying the Extent of North American Mammal Extinction Relative to the Pre-Anthropogenic Baseline

(2009) Marc A. Carrasco et al.   PLoS One

Synchronous extinction of North America's Pleistocene mammals

(2009) J. T. Faith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Timing of Quaternary megafaunal extinction in South America in relation to human arrival and climate change

(2009) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species

(2008) GEORGINA M. MACE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Cretaceous climate, volcanism, impacts, and biotic effects

(2008) Gerta Keller   CRETACEOUS RESEARCH

Press-pulse: a general theory of mass extinction?

(2008) Nan Crystal Arens et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

A scale of greatness and causal classification of mass extinctions: Implications for mechanisms

(2008) A. M. C. Sengor et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2008) D. B. Wake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extinction and the spatial dynamics of biodiversity

(2008) D. Jablonski   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions

(2008) A. D. Barnosky   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

(2008) T. J. Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record

(2008) J. Alroy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phanerozoic Trends in the Global Diversity of Marine Invertebrates

(2008) J. Alroy et al.   SCIENCE

Synergies among extinction drivers under global change

(2008) B BROOK et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Toward monitoring global biodiversity

(2008) Jonathan E. M. Baillie et al.   Conservation Letters