Extinction vs accuracy

Heath, Fred Fred.Heath at power-one.com
Mon Jan 15 18:53:26 EST 2001


Thanks, Patrick. I will make the word extirpate locally extinct from my
ecological lexicon!!
---Fred
 
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Foley [SMTP:patfoley at csus.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 3:28 PM
> To:   Fred.Heath at power-one.com
> Cc:   Leps-l
> Subject:      Re: Extinction vs accuracy
>
> Fred,
>
> The term 'extirpate' is sometimes suggested for local extinction, but not
> by
> most ecologists. It has etymological problems as a synonym for local
> extinction,
> as I wrote in a post yesterday. If anyone really hates the use of
> 'extinction'
> as local extinction, you need to convince more people than me and others
> on the
> list. You need to convince the editors of numerous journals and University
> presses.
>
> I have just pulled 18 books off the wall, classics in ecology,
> biogeography and
> evolution. Looking in the indices I find
> extinction    18 times
> extirpation    0 times.
>
> I'm convinced. How about you?
>
> Patrick Foley
> patfoley at csus.edu
>
>
> "Heath, Fred" wrote:
>
> > Dear Parick,
> >         Just for my continuing education, what does the word extirpated
> mean
> > in a biological sense? In my ignorance, I've always used extinct when a
> > species was totally gone worldwide and extirpated when talking about a
> local
> > population. Obviously, if a local or island population is a distinct
> > subspecies (however that is defined) then the subspecies could be
> extinct,
> > even though the species is still viable elsewhere.
> > ---Thanks, Fred
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Patrick Foley [SMTP:patfoley at csus.edu]
> > > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 2:14 PM
> > > To:   Ron Gatrelle
> > > Cc:   Leps-l
> > > Subject:      Re: Extinction vs accuracy
> > >
> > > Chris, Ron and others,
> > >
> > > The reason I believe there is a scientific consensus that the term
> > > extinction
> > > should apply to local populations also is that the scientific
> literature
> > > is
> > > full of that usage. This is especially true of the island biogeography
> and
> > > metapopulation literature, but also the population genetics
> literature.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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