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Extinction debt

In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery express the same idea.

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Overview

Terminology

Causes

Rate of extinction

Time scale

Theoretical development

Detection

Applications to conservation

In popular culture

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Extinction debt

Nodes99
Edges98
Triples65
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020202
Components1

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Extinction debt

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related to Time scale · 12
Extinction debt → Caribbean, Extinction, Islands, Isthmus, It, Local, Pacific Ocean, Panama, The, This, Tree, While
related to Terminology · 11
Extinction debt → American, Clarence Lehman, David Jablonski, David Tilman, Dead, Dead Man Walking, Extinction, Jared Diamond, Martin Nowak, Robert May, The
related to Development in other models · 10
Extinction debt → As, For, Further, It, Later, Models, Most, Neutral, Predicted, The
has application · 8
Extinction debt → Amazon, As, However, In, It, Protection, Rocky Mountains, The
related to Origins in metapopulation models · 7
Extinction debt → In, Metapopulations, One, That, This, Tilman, When
has cause · 6
Extinction debt → Extinction, However, Pollution, The, These, Under
related to Detection · 3
Extinction debt → Because, Extinction, Processes
related to Experimental evidence · 3
Extinction debt → Due, However, In
is a · 2
Extinction debt → future extinction of species due to events in the past, likely explanation

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extinction species debt habitat may past become due likely extinct years number models also many debts model destruction habitats time

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Extinction debtis afuture extinction of species due to events in the past0.90text
Extinction debtis alikely explanation0.90text
habitat restoration may reverse extinction debt.Immigration credit is the corollary to extinction debtinstance ofInterventions0.80text
the restoration of an ecosysteminstance ofIt refers to the number of species likely to migrate to an area after an event0.80text
islandsinstance ofisolated habitats0.80text
Extinction debthas applicationThe0.60section
Extinction debthas applicationIt0.60section
Extinction debthas applicationProtection0.60section
Extinction debthas applicationHowever0.60section
Extinction debthas applicationAmazon0.60section
Extinction debthas applicationIn0.60section
Extinction debthas applicationRocky Mountains0.60section

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