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The length of time series for currently extant (in 2015, vertical dashed line) populations is determined by the monitoring effort in the preceding decades (solid black line) rather than the timing of the population crash. The total possible length of a time series is determined not only by the monitoring effort but also by the time to collapse, which in turn is governed by the rate of forcing of the system (dotted and dashed black lines)
