[boulos]

Fwiw, I was expecting your quote to include a number >50%. Not that this wouldn’t be catastrophic, but most does mean more than 50% :).

Edit: though now I’m curious by percentage of animals (presumably 40% of species may be, or even is likely, more than 40% of animals, because of power-law-style distributions).

[rexpop]

The initial disappearance of even this minority is significant enough to impact the rest. Ecosystems are fragile, symbiotic systems.