Science and Technology Daily, Nanjing, November 10 (Reporter Zhang Ye) The current man-made global warming and deforestation have led to a continuous decline in the diversity of forest insects.
Academy of Sciences As the most diverse creatures on earth today, insects have prospered since the Carboniferous, and have become an important role in the terrestrial ecosystem in the Permian
Scientists in the Keyuan Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology large data centers to establish a global beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) fossil form database, on this basis, using a variety of mathematical models for the Early Permian to Middle Triassic beetle classification Diversity, morphological divergence, phylogeny and ecological habits were comprehensively analyzed, and the early evolutionary history of beetles was reconstructed
Zhong ASTRI ASTRI Studies have shown that with the radiation of the early and middle Permian beetle stem populations, their diversity and morphological divergence increased simultaneously
In modern nature, insects play an important role in the terrestrial carbon cycle
The large radiation of paleozoic terrestrial plants was accompanied by huge carbon storage and oxygen release, which is considered to be the leading factor in the increase in atmospheric oxygen content during the same period
Today, human-induced global warming and deforestation events have led to a continuous decline in the diversity of forest insects, which is very similar to the extinction event at the end of the Permian
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