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单词 catastrophic mortality
释义

catastrophic mortality

English

Noun

catastrophic mortality (uncountable)

  1. (archaeology, paleontology) The process by which individuals in a population die off in large numbers as part of a single event (rather than one by one, from a variety of causes).[1]
    Antonym: attritional mortality

References

  1. Pat Shipman, Life History of a Fossil, Harvard University Press, 1981.
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