Extinction Debt

Extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past.

Relevant as the condition for designing in many modified/constructed ecosystems.

Concepts

  • dead clade walking
  • survival without recovery

Jablonski, David. ‘Lessons from the Past: Evolutionary Impacts of Mass Extinctions’. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 98, no. 10 (2001): 5393–98. https://doi.org/10/fdjwjj.