ecological catastrophe

  • 1catastrophe — ca|tas|tro|phe [kəˈtæstrəfi] n [Date: 1500 1600; : Greek; Origin: katastrephein to turn upside down , from kata ( CATACLYSM) + strephein to turn ] 1.) [U and C] a terrible event in which there is a lot of destruction, suffering, or death =… …

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  • 2catastrophe — noun (C, U) 1 a terrible event in which there is a lot of destruction or many people are injured or die: the catastrophe of a worldwide conflict | The oil spill threatens an unparalleled ecological catastrophe. 2 an event or situation which is… …

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  • 3Ecological succession — Succession after disturbance: a boreal forest one (left) and two years (right) after a wildfire. Ecological succession, is the phenomenon or process by which a community progressively transforms itself until a stable community is formed. It is a… …

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  • 4Ecological extinction — Types and definitions of extinctions = Estes, Duggins, and Rathburn (1989) recognize three distinct types of extinction.Global extinction is defined as “the ubiquitous disappearance of a species. [Estes et al. The ecology of extinctions in kelp… …

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  • 5catastrophe — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, big, complete, great, major, terrible, total ▪ minor ▪ national …

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  • 6Catastrophe de Baia Mare (2000) — 47°40′00″N 23°35′01″E / 47.666667, 23.58361 La catastrophe de 2000 de Baia Mare …

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  • 7ecological — adj. Ecological is used with these nouns: ↑awareness, ↑balance, ↑catastrophe, ↑consequence, ↑crisis, ↑destruction, ↑devastation, ↑disaster, ↑diversity, ↑engineering, ↑footprint, ↑ …

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  • 8Malthusian catastrophe — A Malthusian catastrophe (also phrased Malthusian check, Malthusian crisis, Malthusian disaster, Malthusian fallacy, Malthusian nightmare, or Malthusian theory of population) was originally foreseen to be a forced return to subsistence level… …

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  • 9Oxygen Catastrophe — The Oxygen Catastrophe was a massive environmental change believed to have happened during the Siderian period at the beginning of the Paleoproterozoic era of the Precambrian, about 2.4 billion years ago. It is also called the Oxygen Crisis,… …

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  • 10List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction — This is a list of apocalyptic and post apocalyptic fiction works, sorted by the nature of the catastrophe portrayed.World War III and other apocalyptic wars (between humans)Films1930s*1936. Things to Come , in which an extended future second… …

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