12.1: The Biodiversity Crisis Last updated Feb 10, 2021 Save as PDF 12: Conservation Biology and Biodiversity 12.1A: Loss of Biodiversity Page ID49588 BoundlessBoundless ( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) 47.1A: Loss of BiodiversityHuman activity is the driving force behind the current biodiversity crisis, which is causing great species loss in a short time period.47.1B: Types of BiodiversityGenetic diversity, ecosystem diversity, and human-derived diversity are measures of biodiversity that currently define life on earth.47.1C: Biodiversity Change through Geological TimeBiodiversity has been affected by five mass extinction periods, which greatly influenced speciation and extinction rates.47.1D: The Pleistocene ExtinctionBiodiversity loss, especially the disappearance of megafauna, during the Pleistocene Extinction has been linked to the arrival of humans.47.1E: Present-Time ExtinctionsHuman activities probably caused the Holocene mass extinctions; many methods have been employed to estimate these extinction rates.