Dynamics of extinction debt across five taxonomic groups

John M. Halley; Nikolaos Monokrousos; Antonios D. Mazaris; William D. Newmark; Despoina Vokou

doi:10.1038/ncomms12283

Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Dynamics of extinction debt across five taxonomic groups

John M. Halley,
Nikolaos Monokrousos,
Antonios D. Mazaris,
William D. Newmark,
Despoina Vokou

Affiliations

John M. Halley: Department of Biological Applications and Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina
Nikolaos Monokrousos: Department of Biological Applications and Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina
Antonios D. Mazaris: Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
William D. Newmark: Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, University of Utah
Despoina Vokou: Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12283
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Extinction after habit loss does not occur immediately. Here, the authors develop a model and estimate how fast extinction debt is paid off after habit loss, and show a temporal profile of species diversity decays in a power-law fashion with a half-life increasing slowly with habit size and area.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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