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A water flea (Daphnia).
Experimentally manipulating the environment of water fleas (Daphnia) demonstrates that extinction risk can be predicted accurately if density dependence is included and reveals that existing models underestimate extinction rates.
Image Credit: Photograph provided by Paul Hebert, Barcode of Life Image Library, University of Guelph, Canada
Citation: (2005) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 3(7) July 2005. PLoS Biol 3(7): ev03.i07. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v03.i07
Published: July 26, 2005
Copyright: © 2005 Paul Hebert. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Experimentally manipulating the environment of water fleas (Daphnia) demonstrates that extinction risk can be predicted accurately if density dependence is included and reveals that existing models underestimate extinction rates.
Image Credit: Photograph provided by Paul Hebert, Barcode of Life Image Library, University of Guelph, Canada