Extinction
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 The Dodo of Mauritius, shown here in a 1626 illustration by Roelant Savery, is an often-cited example of modern extinction. |
In biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively. This difficulty leads to phenomena such as Lazarus taxa, where a species presumed extinct abruptly "re-appears" (typically in the fossil record) after a period of apparent absence.
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- Related: Bioevent, Endling, Gene pool, Genetic erosion, Genetic pollution, Genocide, Habitat fragmentation, IUCN Red List, Ecological importance of bees, Living Planet Index, Mass extinction, Overexploitation, Red List Index, Refugium (population biology), Speciation, Timeline of extinctions, Dinosaurs, Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary
| Committee on recently extinct organisms Committee on recently extinct organisms creo.amnh.org - Web |
| Recently Extinct Animals Recently Extinct Animals extinctanimals.petermaas.nl - Web |
| H.E. Strickland's The Dodo and its Kindred (London... H.E. Strickland's The Dodo and its Kindred (London: 1848) contentdm.lindahall.org/u?/Natural_His,2106 - Web |
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| Sepkoski's Global Genus Database of Marine Animals Sepkoski's Global Genus Database of Marine Animals strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack - Web |
