Draft:Outline of extinction

Extinction can be described as all of the following:

• A biological phenomenon –
• A type of death –

• Coextinction
• Conservation-induced extinction
• Extinction debt
• Ecological extinction
• Evolutionary suicide
• Functional extinction
• Local extinction

• Mass extinction
• Pseudoextinction
• Extinct in the wild

• Artificial intelligence
• Asteroid impact
• Biological warfare
• Climate change
• Extinction risk from climate change
• Deforestation
• Disease
• Ecological collapse
• Extinction event
• Genetic engineering
• Genetic erosion
• Habitat destruction
• Human overpopulation
• Interspecific competition
• Invasive species
• Nanotechnology
• Nuclear warfare
• Ocean acidification
• Overfishing
• Overhunting
• Pollution
• Resource depletion
• Superflare
• Volcanic eruption

History of extinction

• Lists of extinct species

• List of extinct arachnids

• List of extinct bird species since 1500
• List of bird extinctions by year
• List of moa species

• List of recently extinct fishes

• List of recently extinct mammals
• List of extinct dog breeds
• List of extinct cetaceans

• List of extinct butterflies
• List of recently extinct insects

• List of recently extinct amphibians

List of recently extinct plants

• List of African animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of European species extinct in the Holocene
• List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of Oceanian species extinct in the Holocene
• List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene
• List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
• List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene
• Islands
• List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene
• List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene

• De-extinction –
• Human-guided migration –
• Species reintroduction –
• examples –
• Eurasian beaver reintroduction
• Lynx reintroduction in Great Britain
• Rewilding –
• Species translocation – human action of moving an organism from one area and releasing it in another.

• Extinct species in art

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