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ArticleEcology letters2025

Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations.

John M Drake, Éric Marty, Anurag Sau

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Article in Ecology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 authors.

John M DrakeOdum School of Ecology & Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4646-1235
Éric MartyOdum School of Ecology & Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Anurag SauOdum School of Ecology & Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Theoretical models suggest that the mean time to extinction scales with habitat size through either exponential or power law relationships, depending on demographic and environmental stochasticity. Despite extensive theoretical work, empirical validation of these scaling relationships is limited. Here, we report a microcosm study of Daphnia magna populations in experimental chambers consisting of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, or 32 patches, with a total of 35 populations monitored daily until extinction. We tested the scaling of extinction time with patch count using nonlinear regression models for both exponential and power law functions, comparing model fit with mean squared error. Overall, the data supported the power law over an exponential relationship (bootstrapped

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DaphniaEcosystemExtinction, BiologicalModels, BiologicalAnimalsPopulation DynamicsDaphnia magnaexperimental extinctionextinction timepower lawscaling ruletime‐to‐extinction

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PMCPMC12288443

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