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The Use of Population Viability Analyses in Conservation Planning (Hardcover, Bulletin 48)
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The Use of Population Viability Analyses in Conservation Planning (Hardcover, Bulletin 48)
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The scope of this volume is intentionally broad. We review
applications of spatially realistic occupancy models and age- or
stage-structured demographic models as well as individual-based
demographic models. These three main Population Viability Analysis
(PVA) approaches initially are compared with other conservation
assessment tools in an overview by Akcakaya, Lacy and Sjogren-Gulve
and Hanski, with a special chapter on plant PVAs by Menges, all
using illustrative examples. Fleishman et al. subsequently outline
how nested subsets analyses can help discern focal species, taxa
whose habitat requirements may encompass those of larger species
groups and can be subjected to PVAs. Kindvall then compares the
predictive accuracy of simpler occupancy models versus a democratic
model for predicting local extinctions and colonizations in a
bush-cricket metapopulation. Thereafter, four case studies which
use the three model categories are presented (papers by Berglind,
Ebenhard, Lennartsson, and Vos et al.). The volume concludes with
Gardenfors' paper on the use of PVAs in the classification of
threatened species, and Lacy's presentation of the structure and
logic of VORTEX, a widely used demographic and genetic PVA model.
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