The Resiliency of Life (IMAGE)

Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

The Resiliency of Life

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Animal functional diversity (blue line) and taxonomic diversity (orange line) not only recovered after the two largest mass extinctions in Earth's history, in each case they rebounded well beyond pre-extinction levels and are more closely intertwined today than ever before.

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Eric Cheng

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