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extinction debt: a standalone construct

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Ecology

the future extinctions already set in motion by past habitat loss, where species persist for a time but are doomed by the reduced habitat left.

In ecology, extinction debt refers to the future extinctions already set in motion by past habitat loss, where species persist for a time but are doomed by the reduced habitat left. This meaning comes from Tilman (1994) in Nature.[1]

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Tilman, D., May, R. M., Lehman, C. L., & Nowak, M. A. (1994). Habitat destruction and the extinction debt. Nature, 371(6492), 65-66. https://doi.org/10.1038/371065a0

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