According to 130,000 years' worth of mammalian food webs and extinction patterns, we're in the midst of a mass biodiversity crisis. Very chill.
"When an animal disappears from an ecosystem," Fricke added, "its loss reverberates across the web of connections that link all species in that ecosystem."The researchers utilized a machine learning system — trained "using data from modern observations of predator-prey interactions," according to the release — to reach their conclusions. It's worth noting that, though the authors of the study at hand claim that their program has shown promising accuracy.
"This approach can tell us who eats whom today with 90 percent accuracy," ecologist Lydia Beaudrot, a senior co-author, noted in the press release. "That is better than previous approaches have been able to do, and it enabled us to model predator-prey interactions for extinct species." In other words, this machine has offered a glimpse back in time — and as looking backwards often does, a glimpse into our potential future, should we fail to intervene in the
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