Good point. We can make more people from only a few thousand healthy ones. We cannot replace our ecosystems.
@amerika @iska@mstdn.starnix.network
True, but you can increase the breeding rate. In an ecosystem if one species falls in number or is removed, often another will replace it. (i.e. "invasive species")
It takes time for that species to replace it, time you do not have if you are in crash.
Second, increasing breeding will produce an inbreeding crisis. Mutations exist at a certain rate in order to avoid total uniformity.
Once you get below a certain number of individuals -- 50k for simple specials, 2k or so for complex ones -- you get genetic crash.
@societyoutcasts @iska
Not if those populations fall below breeding rate, and also, not if they are no longer interacting in an ecosystem. An ecosystem is more than the enumeration of its parts.