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Section 1

The Biodiversity Crisis

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Loss of Biodiversity

Human activity is the driving force behind the current biodiversity crisis, which is causing great species loss in a short time period.

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Types of Biodiversity

Genetic diversity, ecosystem diversity, and human-derived diversity are measures of biodiversity that currently define life on earth.

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Biodiversity Change through Geological Time

Biodiversity has been affected by five mass extinction periods, which greatly influenced speciation and extinction rates.

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The Pleistocene Extinction

Biodiversity loss, especially the disappearance of megafauna, during the Pleistocene Extinction has been linked to the arrival of humans.

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Present-Time Extinctions

Human activities probably caused the Holocene mass extinctions; many methods have been employed to estimate these extinction rates.

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