Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
by lisper on Thursday July 11, 2019 @02:18AM
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Nope. But some references might help.
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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
by titzer on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:00AM
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Here's a good start: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692970/
One of the key points:
(iii) ecosystem diversity and productivity increases over macroevolutionary time as a whole, and after each major extinction event.
That implies that major extinction events do in fact affect ecosystems profoundly, and the ones that emerge successfully have more productivity and diversity.
Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
by lisper on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:08AM
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That reference does not support your claim that "ecosystems reproduce" at all. In fact, the paper says the exact opposite: organisms reproduce. Ecosystems do not.
Not even your cherry-picked quote supports your claim. "Ecosystem diversity and productivity increases" is not even remotely the same thing as "ecosystems reproduce."