Small and Declining Populations

• 19 February 1998
• book chapter
• Published by Wiley
• p. 116-134
• https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444313499.ch6

Abstract

Keywords

• SMALL POPULATIONS AND DECLINING ONES - FOCUS OF CONSERVATION SCIENTISTS
• PERSISTENCE TIMES AND MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION SIZE (MVP)
• DEMOGRAPHIC STOCHASTICITY
• POPULATION SIZE AND LIKELIHOOD OF EXTINCTION RELATIONSHIP
• ENVIRONMENTAL STOCHASTICITY - THREAT
• AND CONSERVATION PLANNING COUNTERACTING IT
• SINGLE CATASTROPHES
• FIRES. VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS OR HURRICANES
• SIMULATION MODELS USED IN CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT
• ETHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
• GENETIC THREATS AND GENETIC DRIFT
• EXTINCTION AND NUMBERS AND SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT OF SMALL POPULATIONS