Mass mortality event
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mass-mortality-event-181-2201632
title:
Mass mortality event
text:
A mass mortality event (MME) is an incident that kills a vast number of individuals of a single species in a short period of time. The event may put a species at risk of extinction or upset an ecosystem. This is distinct from the mass die-off associated with short lived and synchronous emergent insect taxa which is a regular and non-catastrophic occurrence. Causes of MME's include disease and human-related activities such as pollution. Climatic extremes and other environmental influences such as
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Rapid, catastrophic die-off of organisms
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_mortality_event
date created:
2018-02-25T15:35:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T16:47:04Z
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