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... This is consistent with the idea that climatic cooling played a major role in extinction, but it may also reflect the typically narrow niche breadth of tropical taxa and the high degree of interdependence among species. High-resolution stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental studies are crucial for understanding mass extinctions.
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