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What (who) is extirpation - definition
THE CONDITION OF A TAXON CEASING TO EXIST IN A REGION WHICH IT PREVIOUSLY INHABITED
Extirpate; Locally extinct; Extirpated; Extirpation; Extirpates; Extirpating; Extirpations; Local extinctions; Functionally extirpated; Functional extirpation; Invasive pest eradication
Extirpation
·noun The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from land, of evil from the heart, of a race of men, of heresy.
extirpation
n.
Eradication, uprooting, extermination, annihilation, destruction, extinction, excision, abolition, rooting out or up.
Extirpated
·Impf & ·p.p. of Extirpate.
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Local extinction
Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere. Local extinctions are contrasted with global extinctions.
Local extinctions mark a change in the ecology of an area. It has sometimes been followed by a replacement of the species taken from other locations, such as with wolf reintroduction.
The term "local extinction" is highly vernacular. The more proper biological term is extirpation.
Examples of use of extirpation
1. By the method the team enucleated arthrophytes at first, but now carries on such difficult operations such as meniscus excision and joint–mice extirpation.