http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/ Conservation research... with bite Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/#comment-9953 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:46:03 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2916#comment-9953 [...] a rather detailed, 10-page article in Trends in Ecology and Evolution that attacked our concept of generalizing minimum viable population (MVP) size estimates among species. Steve Beissinger of the University of California at Berkeley, one of the [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/#comment-5194 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 06:08:07 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2916#comment-5194 [...] unrelated, Minimum viable population size: a meta-analysis of 30 years of published estimates and Pragmatic population viability targets in a rapidly changing world) have shown that there is in fact little variation in this number among the best-studied species; [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/#comment-3099 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:56:49 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2916#comment-3099 [...] magic conservation number 15 12 2009 Although I’ve already blogged about our recent paper in Biological Conservation on minimum viable population sizes, American Scientist just did a great [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/#comment-3009 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:50:48 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2916#comment-3009 [...] targets to prevent extinction 12 11 2009 I know I’ve blogged recently about this, but The Adelaidean did a nice little article that I thought I’d reproduce here. The source [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/#comment-2915 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:14:49 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2916#comment-2915 The paper was covered in Time Magazine, New Scientist, Conservation Magazine and a heap of other media outlets worldwide. Check out http://conservationbytes.com/corey-j-a-bradshaw/recent-media/ for links.

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/#comment-2891 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:41:40 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2916#comment-2891 [...] How many individuals of a species are required to stave off extinction from man-made causes? Sadly, more than we thought. [...]

]]> http://conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction/#comment-2870 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:02:29 +0000 http://conservationbytes.com/?p=2916#comment-2870 [...] Managing for extinction « ConservationBytes.com conservationbytes.com/2009/10/09/managing-for-extinction – view page – cached That concept of ‘how many is enough?’ in conservation biology, the so-called ‘minimum viable population size‘, is enough to drive some conservation practitioners batty. — From the page [...]

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