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The 53 pages that link to Extinction, each with the reason it gives.

• Invasive speciesRelated: Invasive predators, competitors, and pathogens can contribute to local or global extinctions.

• Conservation biologyRelated: Preventing irreversible species loss is a central aim of conservation biology.

• BiogeographyRelated: Extinction, not just dispersal, shapes which species are present in each region today.

• Biodiversity lossBroader topic: At its most severe, biodiversity loss ends with the irreversible loss of a species.

• Adaptive radiationCompared with: Extinction can erase branches of a radiation and obscure its original diversity.

• Endangered speciesNarrower topic: Endangerment describes risk of this outcome, not extinction itself.

• EndemismRelated: Local extinction can erase endemism by removing a taxon from part of its former range.

• Biological invasionRelated: Introduced predators, competitors, and pathogens can contribute to native species extinctions.

• Georges CuvierRelated: Cuvier argued from fossils that extinction was real, despite its rarity in living nature.

• On the Origin of SpeciesRelated: The book connects competition and environmental change with the disappearance of lineages.

• Mary AnningRelated: Her marine reptiles provided vivid evidence that entire kinds of animals had vanished.

• HabitatRelated: Severe or persistent habitat decline can leave a species unable to survive.

• Crown groupRelated: Extinct descendants remain inside a crown group even though none survive.

• CatastrophismNarrower topic: Catastrophism helped establish extinction as a real feature of Earth’s history.

• Endemic speciesRelated: A narrow endemic range can make regional threats capable of eliminating a species worldwide.

• CryptozoologyRelated: Some cryptozoological claims propose surviving populations of animals considered extinct.

• Living fossilCompared with: Living-fossil lineages are notable precisely because relatives and comparable forms disappeared.

• Holocene extinctionNarrower topic: The Holocene extinction is a broad pattern composed of individual species extinctions.

• Island ruleRelated: Island-adapted giants and dwarfs can be especially vulnerable to rapid environmental change.

• Passenger pigeonNarrower topic: The passenger pigeon is a prominent case of extinction caused by human activity.

• ThylacineNarrower topic: The thylacine is a documented modern extinction with a known final captive animal.

• DiprotodonNarrower topic: Diprotodon vanished, but the timing and causes of its extinction remain contested.

• Insular dwarfismRelated: Island dwarf lineages can be especially exposed to habitat loss and environmental disruption.

• Red Queen hypothesisNarrower topic: Van Valen's original argument concerned persistent extinction risk, not only host–parasite interactions.

• Mesopredator releaseRelated: Release can follow local predator loss without requiring global species extinction.

• TuataraCompared with: Most rhynchocephalian diversity disappeared, while tuatara endured as the lineage’s sole living representative.

• Jurassic CoastRelated: The coast’s extinct marine reptiles supplied striking evidence that entire kinds of life had vanished.

• Animal evolutionRelated: Extinction repeatedly pruned animal diversity and redirected the course of evolution.

• AurochsNarrower topic: The aurochs became extinct after centuries of habitat loss and hunting.

• Extinction selectivityNarrower topic: Selectivity describes differences in which lineages undergo extinction.

• Caspian tigerNarrower topic: The Caspian tiger is a regional tiger lineage that no longer exists.

• E. O. WilsonRelated: Wilson warned that human-driven extinction was eroding biological diversity.

• Insect collectingRelated: Concern about rare species has led collectors to weigh scientific value against removal risks.

• MosasaurusRelated: Recognition of the Maastricht animal helped establish that entire kinds of animals could disappear.

• Steller's sea cowNarrower topic: Steller's sea cow is a documented case of extinction caused by intense human exploitation.

• Thomas BernhardBroader topic: Its sustained denunciation makes family memory inseparable from Austria’s Nazi past.

• Alpine ibexRelated: Intensive hunting brought Alpine ibex close to extinction outside a protected refuge.

• Great aukNarrower topic: The great auk is a well-documented case of human-caused species extinction.

• History of paleontologyRelated: Recognizing extinction made gaps between fossil organisms intelligible as changes in life.

• MacroevolutionRelated: Extinction prunes the tree of life and changes which lineages diversify.

• PademelonRelated: The loss of closely related macropods, such as the broad-faced potoroo, underscores the stakes of habitat and predator pressures.

• SivatheriumNarrower topic: The causes and timing of Sivatherium’s disappearance remain difficult to isolate from broader faunal changes.

• Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forestsRelated: Habitat destruction puts range-restricted dry-forest species at heightened risk.

• WildlifeNarrower topic: Wildlife loss can culminate in the disappearance of entire species.

• Barbary lionRelated: The Barbary lion’s extinction in the wild concerns the loss of its free-ranging population.

• Land snailRelated: Habitat loss and introduced predators have driven many island land snails toward extinction.

• ChoughRelated: Regional chough disappearances and recolonizations illustrate local extinction and recovery.

• Falkland Islands wolfNarrower topic: The warrah became extinct after sustained killing by settlers.

• MacrotisRelated: The lesser bilby’s disappearance is the genus’s defining loss.

• MekosuchusNarrower topic: Mekosuchus is known only from fossils and is now extinct.