[MCN] Extinction risk for humans not made explicit, only implied

[Lance Olsen]

Small, fast [ i.e., short-lived ], insect-eating animals to predominate in the future: Study
Animals such as tawny eagle and black rhinoceros that are slow-lived [ i.e., long-lived ] and require special environmental conditions are likely to face extinction over the next 100 years
Press Trust of India <https://www.business-standard.com/author/search/keyword/press-trust-of-india>  |  London 
Last Updated at May 26, 2019 12:01 IST
https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/world-will-shift-to-smaller-animals-over-next-century-study-119052600142_1.html <https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/world-will-shift-to-smaller-animals-over-next-century-study-119052600142_1.html>

Extinction faces Earth’s largest animals and birds such as elephants, rhinos, deer and pelicans
Ben Gelblum <https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/author/ben-gelblum/>May 24, 2019 <https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/2019/05/24/>
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/environment/extinction-faces-earths-largest-animals-and-birds-such-as-elephants-rhinos-deer-and-pelicans/24/05/ <https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/environment/extinction-faces-earths-largest-animals-and-birds-such-as-elephants-rhinos-deer-and-pelicans/24/05/>

Slow-lived [ i.e., long-lived ] species likely to become extinct; world will shift to smaller animals over next century: Study
Smaller birds and mammals, which can thrive in a wide variety of habitats, are more likely to avoid becoming extinct over the next 100 years, scientists say.
https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world-small-lived-species-extinct-world-experts-522595 <https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world-small-lived-species-extinct-world-experts-522595>

Nature Communications <http://www.nature.com/ncomms> 23 May 2019 | OPEN
Projected losses of global mammal and bird ecological strategies <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10284-z>
Robert S. C. Cooke <https://www.nature.com/search?author=%22Robert%20S.%20C.%20Cooke%22>, Felix Eigenbrod <https://www.nature.com/search?author=%22Felix%20Eigenbrod%22> & Amanda E. Bates <https://www.nature.com/search?author=%22Amanda%20E.%20Bates%22>

Abstract [ open access ]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10284-z <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10284-z>

Species, and their ecological strategies, are disappearing. Here we use species traits to quantify the current and projected future ecological strategy diversity for 15,484 land mammals and birds. We reveal an ecological strategy surface, structured by life-history (fast–slow) and body mass (small–large) as one major axis, and diet (invertivore–herbivore) and habitat breadth (generalist–specialist) as the other. We also find that of all possible trait combinations, only 9% are currently realized. Based on species’ extinction probabilities, we predict this limited set of viable strategies will shrink further over the next 100 years, shifting the mammal and bird species pool towards small, fast-lived [ i.e., short-lived ], highly fecund, insect-eating generalists. 
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