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Despite the recent attention that has been given to extinctions (Fiedler & Ahouse 1992, Burgman et al. 1993, Lawton & May 1995), very little is known about the extinction process itself, primarily because determining causality afterwards is extremely difficult. Caughley (1994) recognised two paradigms in the study of extinction processes: extinction driven by agents external to the population in question (declining-population paradigm), and extinction resulting from stochastic processes in small populations (small-population paradigm).
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Sarre, S., Wiegand, K., Henle, K. (1996). The Conservation Biology of a Specialist and a Generalist Gecko in the Fragmented Landscape of the Western Australian Wheatbelt. In: Settele, J., Margules, C., Poschlod, P., Henle, K. (eds) Species Survival in Fragmented Landscapes. The GeoJournal Library, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0343-2_5
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