Extinction |
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Phenomena |
- Background extinction rate
- Coextinction
- De-extinction
- Ecological extinction
- Extinct in the wild
- Functional extinction
- Genetic pollution
- Lazarus taxon
- Local extinction
- Pseudoextinction
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Models | |
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Causes |
- Climate variability and change
- Genetic erosion
- Invasive species
- Habitat destruction
- Human impact on the environment
- Muller's ratchet
- Mutational meltdown
- Overexploitation
- Paradox of enrichment
- Overabundant species
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Theories and concepts |
- Extinction debt
- Extinction risk from global warming
- Extinction threshold
- Field of Bullets
- Hypothetical species
- Latent extinction risk
- Living fossil
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Extinction events | Major |
- Ordovician–Silurian
- Late Devonian
- Permian–Triassic
- Triassic–Jurassic
- Cretaceous–Paleogene
- Holocene
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Other |
- Great Oxidation
- End-Ediacaran
- End-Botomian
- Dresbachian
- Cambrian–Ordovician
- Ireviken
- Mulde
- Lau
- Carboniferous
- Olson's
- End-Capitanian
- Carnian Pluvial
- Toarcian
- End-Jurassic or Tithonian
- Aptian
- Cenomanian-Turonian
- Eocene–Oligocene
- Middle Miocene
- Pliocene–Pleistocene
- Quaternary
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Organizations |
- International Union for Conservation of Nature
- IUCN Species Survival Commission
- Extinction Rebellion
- Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
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See also |
- Anthropocene
- Decline in amphibian populations
- Decline in insect populations
- Extinction symbol
- Human extinction
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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