Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sudden collapse of a species or of a population or community of organisms, as from disease or environmental disruption.
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- noun The act or process of
dying off ;extinction .
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Examples
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But the Louisiana bird die-off came just a few days after up to 5,000 blackbirds fell to earth in neighbouring Arkansas in the small town of Beebe.
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Meanwhile, the Maryland fish die-off was blamed on extreme temperature fluctuations due to cold weather.
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One possible candidate: a mass die-off of most polar bears.
Gernot Wagner: All Polar Bears Gone, Overnight Gernot Wagner 2011
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The challenge which I proposed to you is the troubling die-off which in recent years has been observed in both captive and feral populations of honeybees (it seems reasonable to assume that one may be affecting the other).
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee. 2010
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The result has been an epic die-off of this magnificent tree.
Matt Skoglund: It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change Matt Skoglund 2011
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One possible candidate: a mass die-off of most polar bears.
Gernot Wagner: All Polar Bears Gone, Overnight Gernot Wagner 2011
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TP&W assured anglers that the grass carp that were released were sterile and after eating a lot of the hydrilla they would eventually die-off.
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TP&W assured anglers that the grass carp that were released were sterile and after eating a lot of the hydrilla they would eventually die-off.
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In December, the Fitch Ratings service, which monitors the health of media companies, predicted a widespread newspaper die-off: “Fitch believes more newspapers and newspaper groups will default, be shut down and be liquidated in 2009 and several cities could go without a daily print newspaper by 2010.”
End Times 2009
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The result has been an epic die-off of this magnificent tree.
Matt Skoglund: It's Official: Whitebark Pine Trees are Endangered by Climate Change Matt Skoglund 2011
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