Extinction debt

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What Wikipedia says

In ecology, extinction debt is the future extinction of species due to events in the past. The phrases dead clade walking and survival without recovery express the same idea.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Extinction debt”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: NASA, Robert Simmon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.