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Quantifying the extinction vortex
Abstract
We developed a database of 10 wild vertebrate populations whose declines to extinction were monitored over at least 12 years. We quantitatively characterized the final declines of these well‐monitored populations and tested key theoretical predictions about the process of extinction, obtaining two primary results. First, we found evidence of logarithmic scaling of time‐to‐extinction as a function of population size for each of the 10 populations. Second, two lines of evidence suggested that these extinction‐bound populations collectively exhibited dynamics akin to those theoretically proposed to occur in extinction vortices. Specifically, retrospective analyses suggested that a population size of n individuals within a decade of extinction was somehow less valuable to persistence than the same population size was earlier. Likewise, both year‐to‐year rates of decline and year‐to‐year variability increased as the time‐to‐extinction decreased. Together, these results provide key empirical insights into extinction dynamics, an important topic that has received extensive theoretical attention.
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- Authors
- Fagan, W. F., & Holmes, E. E.
- Venue
- Ecology Letters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-11-09
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 51-60
- ISSN
- 1461-023X (ISSN-L)
- 1461-0248
- OpenAlex
- W2122879786
- Cited by
- 406
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 4.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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