Recent literature in cultural geography, and elsewhere, has productively applied a spectral lens to the subject of extinction, revealing its hauntological aspects. In this article I expand on this, exploring the spectral effects of the diminishments that precede extinction. This is articulated via an extinction story detailing the steep decline in numbers of arctic terns (pickies) returning to the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland, to breed. Drawing on memories of their past abundance, this narrative discloses how the spectre of these birds’ waning numbers haunts the island’s places and more-than-human inhabitants. Through the specifics of this example I develop a conceptualisation of the spectral more-than that lies at the heart of such decline, revealing how the ghosts invoked by extinction and biotic diminishment multiply across the relational complexity of local ecology.

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记住的归属：与幽灵的相遇不仅仅是在衰落的风景中

文化地理学和其他领域的最新文献有效地将光谱镜头应用于灭绝主题，揭示了其幽灵学方面。在这篇文章中，我对此进行了扩展，探讨了灭绝之前的光谱减少的影响。这是通过一个灭绝故事来阐述的，该故事详细描述了返回苏格兰奥克尼群岛帕帕韦斯特雷岛繁殖的北极燕鸥数量急剧下降。这篇叙述借鉴了对它们过去丰富程度的记忆，揭示了这些鸟类数量减少的幽灵如何困扰着岛上的地方和超过人类的居民。通过这个例子的具体细节，我对光谱的概念化不仅仅是这种衰退的核心，揭示了灭绝和生物减少所引发的幽灵如何在当地生态的关系复杂性中繁殖。