Extinction Debt in Source-Sink Metacommunities
Figure 5
(a) Distribution of the direct (left axes, grey distribution) and indirect (right axis, white distribution) values of relaxation time. We have combined all the values found obtained for all simulations (for all values of regional similarity and dispersal). Light grey has been used when the two distributions overlap.(b) Direct relaxation time with increasing dispersal and different values of regional similarity (ω = 0 white circles, ω = 0.5 light grey circles, ω = 0.7 dark grey circles, ω = 0.9 black circles). We present means calculated for 2000 simulations; parameters are given in methods. We do not present data where we found fewer than 30 simulations with regional extinctions (low values of dispersal). Standards deviations are omitted for clarity and are presented in Figure S2.