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When a population is small there is an abundance of resources for all individuals, so the per capita resource availability is high, thus leading to more rapid growth rates (as compared to larger populations). Why then are small populations more likely to go extinct compared to large populations

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Since there are fewer individuals there is less genetic variation meaning that one disease/disaster and wipe out the whole population

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