mass extinction

基本解釋

This marks precisely—to within a few thousand years—the point of mass extinction on the land.
這明確標(biāo)志著正是在這幾千年中，發(fā)生了陸地上的大規(guī)模滅絕。
None of it lines up to say a mass extinction and there is very little evidence to say humans drove the extinction.
沒(méi)有一個(gè)數(shù)據(jù)指出曾有一次大規(guī)模的滅絕，而且很少有證據(jù)說(shuō)是人類(lèi)導(dǎo)致它們的滅絕。
A new study shows the apparent mass extinction was due instead to a combination of climate change, habitat loss as well as human impact.
一項(xiàng)新的研究表明，動(dòng)物的大規(guī)模滅絕是由氣候變化、棲息地的喪失以及人類(lèi)的影響共同造成的結(jié)果。

One of the puzzles of mass extinction is why, at certain junctures, the resourcefulness of life seems to falter.
NEWYORKER: The Sixth Extinction?
But, for those of a nervous disposition, the tying of an ancient greenhouse warming to an ancient mass extinction might suggest lessons for the future.
ECONOMIST: A geological burp may have led to the dinosaurs’ domination
ABSTRACT:A REPORTER AT LARGE about the sixth mass extinction.
NEWYORKER: The Sixth Extinction?

the death of many animals, plants, and possibly humans, especially as a result of climate change (= changes in the world's weather caused especially by increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere)

大絕滅
The calcified microbe found in the microlialites provides important material for study of ancient biotic community on the top of the reefs and the conditions of the ancient marine environment after mass extinction.
微生物巖中菌藻類(lèi)化石的發(fā)現(xiàn)為了解大絕滅后礁頂上殘存下來(lái)的古生物群落的組成及當(dāng)時(shí)的古海洋環(huán)境提供了重要的化石材料。
集群絕滅
集群滅絕