Trait-Dependent Extinction Leads to Greater Expected Biodiversity Loss
Trait-Dependent Extinction Leads to Greater Expected Biodiversity Loss
We use a classical combinatorial inequality to establish a Markov inequality for multivariate binary Markov processes on trees. We then apply this result, alongside the Fortuin–Kasteleyn–Ginibre (FKG) inequality, to compare the expected loss of biodiversity under two models of species extinction. One of these models is the generalized version of …