extermination

This article describes extinction in ecology; on the extermination penalty see Keretot (mixed natractate) ; on the use of the term in the time of National Socialism see Posener speeches .

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Under eradication is understood in the ecology , the disappearance of biological species by direct or indirect influence of man. A direct influence is, for example, overfishing or the control of species considered to be pests or pathogens , while an indirect influence can be the destruction of natural habitats ( e.g. deforestation of large areas of tropical rainforest ).

The term extinction is to be distinguished from that of the extinction of species, which describes the natural process of species disappearing in evolution .

Derived from the word eradication , the term is sometimes also in German eradication of the targeted eradicating pathogens from the human population uses (for example, polio -Eradikation).

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Wiktionary: extermination  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sabine Diedrich, Robert Koch Institute: Polio Eradication: Successes and Setbacks. In: bfr.bund.de. March 25, 2011, accessed on February 14, 2017 ( PDF file; 3.0 MB ).