Sökning: "Extinction"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 267 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Extinction.

  1. 1. Extinction in Molecular Clouds : Case of Barnard 335

    Författare :Sven Olofsson; Göran Olofsson; Kalevi Mattila; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; ISM; interstellar medium; extinction; molecular cloud; Astronomy; astronomi; Astronomy; astronomi;

    Sammanfattning : The Bok globule B335 is a small molecular cloud in the solar neighbourhood near the galactic plane. The aim for this three-paper-study is to construct and analyze the extinction for this globule. The method we apply is to use the light from field stars behind the cloud in broadband filters ranging from UV to the mid-infrared. LÄS MER

  3. 2. What is Wrong with Extinction?

    Författare :Erik Persson; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Extinction; species; environmental ethics; biodiversity; moral standing; intrinsic value; future generations;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this investigation is to answer the question of why it is prima facie morally wrong to cause or contribute to the extinction of species. The first potential answer investigated in the book is that other species are instrumentally valuable for human beings. LÄS MER

  4. 3. What is Wrong with Extinction? - The Answer from Anthropocentric Instrumentalism

    Författare :Erik Persson; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; moral philosophy; Ethics; biodiversity; extinction; environmental ethics;

    Sammanfattning : The book contains the first part of an investigation aimed at finding out why it is morally wrong (at least prima facie) to cause species to go extinct. That it is morally wrong seems to be a very basic and widely held intuition. It seems reasonable that a moral theory worth taking seriously ought to be able to account for that intuition. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Palaeogenomic reconstruction of woolly mammoth evolutionary history and extinction dynamics

    Författare :Marianne Dehasque; Love Dalén; David Díez-del-Molino; Rike Stelkens; Rebecca N. Johnson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; woolly mammoth; Mammuthus primigenius; extinction; Wrangel Island; ancient DNA; palaeogenomics; radiocarbon dating; structural variants; genome erosion; population structure; Systematic Zoology; zoologisk systematik och evolutionsforskning;

    Sammanfattning : Biodiversity is declining globally. Yet, the biological and genetic processes associated with these declines on a longer timescale are still poorly understood. Ancient DNA is a powerful tool to study evolution in real-time. Despite advances in the field, there is further need for refinement of laboratory and computational techniques. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Genomic analysis of the process leading up to the extinction of the woolly mammoth

    Författare :Patrícia Pečnerová; Love Dalén; Mark Thomas; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; woolly mammoth; Mammuthus primigenius; extinction; Wrangel Island; ancient DNA; palaeogenetics; population genetics; genomics; genomic erosion; genetic drift; inbreeding; population size; Systematic Zoology; zoologisk systematik och evolutionsforskning;

    Sammanfattning : Species worldwide are subject to contractions in both abundance and geographical range, and their persistence in a changing environment may thus depend on the ability to survive in small and fragmented populations. Despite the urgent need to understand how extinction works, our knowledge of pre-extinction genetic processes is limited because techniques allowing population and conservation genomics to be studied in wild threatened populations have become available only recently. LÄS MER