Black-swan events: Population crashes or temporary emigration? [Biological Sciences]

Using the Global Population Dynamics Database (GPDD) to identify extreme events in abundance times series, Anderson et al. (1) state that "Black-swan events manifest primarily as population die-offs and crashes (86%) rather than unexpected increases, and ignoring heavy-tailed process noise leads to an underestimate in the magnitude of population crashes."...

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