Population viability analysis (PVA) is a process. It entails evaluation of data and models for a
population to anticipate the likelihood that a population will persist for some arbitrarily …

IUCN categories of threat (Endangered Vulnerable, Rare, Indeterminate, and others) are
widely used in 'Red lists' of endangered species and have become an important tool in …

1. Conservation biology has two threads: the small-population paradigm which deals with
the effect of smallness on the persistence of a population, and the declining-population …

I examined the effects of habitat fragmentation on the distribution and abundance of
mammalian carnivores in coastal southern California and tested the prediction that …

We reviewed empirical data and hypotheses derived from demographic, optimal foraging,
life-history, community, and biogeographic theory for predicting the sensitivity of species to …

This document introduces the viable salmonid population (VSP) concept, identifies VSP
attributes, and provides guidance for determining the conservation status of populations and …

The distribution of native, chaparral‐requiring bird species was determined for 37 isolated
fragments of canyon habitat ranging in size from 0.4 to 104 hectares in coastal, urban San …

Ecological research and the way that ecologists use statistics continues to change rapidly.
This second edition of the best-selling Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments leads …

Large carnivores need large areas of relatively wild habitat, which makes their conservation
challenging. These species play important ecological roles and in some cases may qualify …

Population Viability Analysis (PVA) is the estimation of extinction probabilities by analyses
that incorporate identifiable threats to population survival into models of the extinction …