Explain the three level of impact of extinction of species.

Explanation

Extinction was common if not inevitable because species could not always adapt to large or rapid environmental changes. The impact of extinction can be considered at three levels.
(i) Species extinction eliminates an entire species, by an environmental event (flood etc.,) or by biological event (disease or non availability of food resource half or more).
(ii) Mass extinction eliminates half or more species in a region or ecosystem, as might occur following a volcanic eruption. Five major mass extinction that occurred since the Cambrian period. This mass extinction is often referred to as K-T extinction.
(iii) Global extinction eliminates most of the species on a large scale or larger taxonomic groups in the continent or the Earth. Snow ball Earth and extinction following elevation in `CO_(2)` levels are example. Extinction events opens up new habitats and so can facilitate the radiation of organisms that survived the mass extinction.