Equation 36 · Part 2 · Evolutionary Biology and Ecology in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
The same population-level tools — mark-recapture-based abundance and survival estimates, genetic estimates of and diversity, and distribution models tracking range contraction — are the instruments behind the field’s most consequential empirical claims about anthropogenic biodiversity change. Dirzo and colleagues’ 2014 synthesis in Science compiled vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant population trend data across terrestrial ecosystems and documented widespread declines in abundance and range even among species not yet classified as globally threatened with extinction — a phenomenon the authors term “defaunation,” distinct from outright extinction because it captures functional loss…
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [7] Defaunation in the Anthropocene ↗
- [8] Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines ↗
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