Editing Local extinction (section)

{{Short description|Termination of a taxon in a region which it previously inhabited}}
{{For|the excision or surgical destruction of a body part|Surgery}}
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'''Local extinction''', also '''extirpation''', is the termination of a [[species]] (or other [[taxon]]) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere. Local extinctions are contrasted with [[extinction|global extinctions]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Ladle|editor1-first=Richard |editor2-first=Robert J. |editor2-last=Whittaker |title=Conservation Biogeography|url=https://archive.org/details/conservationbiog00ladl|url-access=limited|date=2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-9811-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/conservationbiog00ladl/page/n72 61]}}</ref><ref name=smithpatten2015>{{cite journal | last1=Smith-Patten | first1=Brenda D. | last2=Bridge | first2=Eli S. | last3=Crawford | first3=Priscilla H. C. | last4=Hough | first4=Daniel J. | last5=Kelly | first5=Jeffrey F. | last6=Patten | first6=Michael A. |display-authors=2| title=Is extinction forever? | journal=[[Public Understanding of Science]]  | volume=24 | issue=4 | date=14 January 2015 | pages=481–495 | pmid=25711479 | doi=10.1177/0963662515571489 | pmc=4404403 }}</ref>

Local extinctions mark a change in the [[ecology]] of an area. It has sometimes been followed by a replacement of the species taken from other locations, such as with [[wolf reintroduction]].