<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Small, fast </b></span><b class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; caret-color: rgb(1, 1, 1); color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 1, 1);">[ i.e., short-lived ]</b><b class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">, insect-eating animals to predominate in the future: Study</b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Animals such as tawny</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> eagle </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">and black rhinoceros that are slow-lived </span></span><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(1, 1, 1); color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 1, 1);">[ i.e., long-lived ] </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class="">and require special environmental conditions are likely to face extinction over the next 100 years</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/author/search/keyword/press-trust-of-india" class="">Press Trust of India</a></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(100, 100, 100);"> | London </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(100, 100, 100); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(100, 100, 100); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Last Updated at May 26, 2019 12:01 IST</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/world-will-shift-to-smaller-animals-over-next-century-study-119052600142_1.html" class="">https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/world-will-shift-to-smaller-animals-over-next-century-study-119052600142_1.html</a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Extinction faces Earth’s largest animals and birds such as elephants, rhinos, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">deer a</span>nd pelicans</b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/author/ben-gelblum/" class="">Ben Gelblum</a><a href="https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/2019/05/24/" class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">May 24, 2019</span></a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/environment/extinction-faces-earths-largest-animals-and-birds-such-as-elephants-rhinos-deer-and-pelicans/24/05/" class="">https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/environment/extinction-faces-earths-largest-animals-and-birds-such-as-elephants-rhinos-deer-and-pelicans/24/05/</a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 17px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 1, 1);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">Slow-lived </b></span><b class="">[ i.e., long-lived ] </b><b class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">species likely to become extinct; world will shift to smaller animals over next century: Study</b></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 60, 60); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(60, 60, 60);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">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.</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world-small-lived-species-extinct-world-experts-522595" class="">https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/world-small-lived-species-extinct-world-experts-522595</a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><p class="m_-465090662256293615mb0 m_-465090662256293615inline-block m_-465090662256293615mt6 m_-465090662256293615text13 m_-465090662256293615text-gray-light m_-465090662256293615equalize-line-height" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; padding: 0px; margin: 6px 0px 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1em; letter-spacing: 0.17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="m_-465090662256293615pl6 m_-465090662256293615pr6" style="padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 6px;"><a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms" class="m_-465090662256293615emphasis m_-465090662256293615text-gray" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nature.com/ncomms&source=gmail&ust=1559073640564000&usg=AFQjCNFYnFTXCUY3YbZ-kOpW5vV5pngxrg" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic;">Nature Communications</a> </span><time datetime="2019-05-23" class="">23 May 2019 </time><span class="m_-465090662256293615pl6 m_-465090662256293615pr6" style="padding-right: 6px; padding-left: 6px;">| </span><span class="m_-465090662256293615text-orange m_-465090662256293615upper" style="text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(204, 75, 20);">OPEN</span></p><span class="" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; letter-spacing: 0.17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span><div class="m_-465090662256293615cleared" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 0.17px;"><h2 role="heading" aria-level="2" class="m_-465090662256293615extra-tight-line-height m_-465090662256293615h3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3;"><font class="" style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10284-z" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10284-z&source=gmail&ust=1559073640564000&usg=AFQjCNFVOJ-cMCIhr1jWlnXS4hP_ovmdew" class="" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 14px;">Projected losses of global mammal and bird ecological strategies</a></font></h2><h2 role="heading" aria-level="2" class="m_-465090662256293615extra-tight-line-height m_-465090662256293615h3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><li class="" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); letter-spacing: 0.17px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin-left: 15px; display: inline;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/search?author=%22Robert%20S.%20C.%20Cooke%22" class="m_-465090662256293615js-no-scroll" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nature.com/search?author%3D%2522Robert%2520S.%2520C.%2520Cooke%2522&source=gmail&ust=1559073640564000&usg=AFQjCNFQA9QUtxkPmyF9yoQOkrsH9vzmsw" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Robert S. C. Cooke</a></li><li class="" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); letter-spacing: 0.17px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin-left: 15px; display: inline;"><span class="m_-465090662256293615js-separator">, </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/search?author=%22Felix%20Eigenbrod%22" class="m_-465090662256293615js-no-scroll" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nature.com/search?author%3D%2522Felix%2520Eigenbrod%2522&source=gmail&ust=1559073640564000&usg=AFQjCNHzi-i0YbF660Wt3ElIlP1vcL9CzQ" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Felix Eigenbrod</a></li><li class="" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); letter-spacing: 0.17px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin-left: 15px; display: inline;"><span class="m_-465090662256293615js-separator"> & </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/search?author=%22Amanda%20E.%20Bates%22" class="m_-465090662256293615js-no-scroll" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nature.com/search?author%3D%2522Amanda%2520E.%2520Bates%2522&source=gmail&ust=1559073640564000&usg=AFQjCNHpF28t40OrxcpHlLhlZ7c6vj2Fkg" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Amanda E. Bates</a></li></span></h2><div class="m_-465090662256293615mb1 m_-465090662256293615text13 m_-465090662256293615cleared m_-465090662256293615equalize-line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1em;"><br class=""></div><div class="m_-465090662256293615mb1 m_-465090662256293615text13 m_-465090662256293615cleared m_-465090662256293615equalize-line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1em;">Abstract [ open access ]</div><div class="m_-465090662256293615mb1 m_-465090662256293615text13 m_-465090662256293615cleared m_-465090662256293615equalize-line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1em;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10284-z" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10284-z&source=gmail&ust=1559073640564000&usg=AFQjCNFVOJ-cMCIhr1jWlnXS4hP_ovmdew" class="" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.nature.com/<wbr class="">articles/s41467-019-10284-z</a></div><div class="m_-465090662256293615mb1 m_-465090662256293615text13 m_-465090662256293615cleared m_-465090662256293615equalize-line-height" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1em;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.17px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="m_-465090662256293615mb1 m_-465090662256293615text13 m_-465090662256293615cleared m_-465090662256293615equalize-line-height" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin: 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1em;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.17px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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 <span class="">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,</span></span><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);"> shifting the mammal and bird species pool towards small, fast-lived </span></span><b class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; caret-color: rgb(1, 1, 1); color: rgb(1, 1, 1); letter-spacing: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(1, 1, 1);">[ i.e., short-lived ]</b><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); letter-spacing: 0.17px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">, highly fecund, insect-eating generalists. </span></div></div></div><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;" class="">==========================================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Geneva;" class="">"Controlled capitalism … had been a truly colossal success. From the end of the Second World War until the mid-1970s the American and European economies were uplifted by many years of rapid growth, bringing affluence from the relatively few to almost all."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Geneva;" class="">"In the late 1970s the tendency to control capitalism was abruptly reversed."</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 16px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Geneva;" class="">“ … the most striking feature of our turbo-capitalist times, the hollowing-out of democratic governance over the economy.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class="">Edward Luttwak, Turbo-Capitalism. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class="">1998 in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Lucida Grande";" class="">1999 in the U.S. by Harper Collins.</div></div>
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