Causes of Extinction

• Deterministic factors (stacked deck)

  • Realized growth rate is negative.
  • Deaths > Births

• Stochastic factors (bad luck)

  • Intrinsic
    • genetic stochasticity
    • demographic stochasticity
  • Extrinsic
    • environmental variation (EV)
    • catastrophe

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