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Population Management and Restoration

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Conservation Biology

In this chapter, you will learn:

  1. 1.

    How to estimate a population’s probability of persistence and initiate investigations to determine that probability in specific populations

  2. 2.

    How to develop a plan for the conservation of a small and declining population and experimentally identify the factors most important to its recovery

  3. 3.

    What are the social, political, and legal conditions that support population restoration

  4. 4.

    Why non-native species pose a threat to native populations and how such threats can be controlled

In Chapter 8 we saw how models offering a Population Viability Analysis (PVA) could be constructed, what kinds of analyses they might be able to perform, and how they might be applied to real populations. In this chapter, we continue our investigation of population conservation by examining specific case histories of conservation management in small populations, as well as examining the management of populations of non-native species, populations that we often want to remain small, or even eradicate altogether.

We have noted earlier that genetic considerations were the original source of estimates of minimum viable populations in conservation biology, beginning with Franklin’s (1980) suggestion that effective population sizes of 50 were needed to prevent deleterious effects of inbreeding, and a minimum effective size of 500 was required to maintain sufficient genetic variation to be able to respond to continuing environmental variation. We also have noted that such “rules” were too general to be of value to specific populations. In many cases, much larger numbers may be required. Of greater importance is the fact that such an estimate of MVP reflects only genetic considerations. Modern population viability analysis considers demographic, environmental, and genetic characteristics of a population, and shifts its emphasis from focusing on the minimum size needed for a viable population (MVP) to more complex and comprehensive estimates of the probability of the population’s persistence through time under different environmental, demographic, and genetic scenarios.

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