Population viability analysis (PVA) is a species-specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology. It is traditionally defined...

Minimum viable population (MVP) is a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild. This term is commonly used in the...

crossbreeding to maintain viability. When genetic viability seems to be decreasing within a population, a population viability analysis (PVA) can be done to...

important in conservation biology, especially in the development of population viability analysis which makes it possible to predict the long-term probability...

Look up viable or viability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Viability or viable may refer to: Viability selection, the selection of individual organisms...

"Systematic Comparison of C3 and C4 Plants Based on Metabolic Network Analysis". BMC Systems Biology. 6 (59): S9. doi:10.1186/1752-0509-6-S2-S9. PMC 3521184...

Small populations can behave differently from larger populations. They are often the result of population bottlenecks from larger populations, leading...

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greater. A population Viability Analysis (PVA) for crab-eating macaques revealed that the presence and absence of females in a population are key to its...

of DDT biomagnification is the significant decline in North American populations of predatory birds such as bald eagles and peregrine falcons due to DDT...

presence of sea otters, sea urchins practice destructive grazing on kelp populations which contributes to declines in coastal ecosystems within the northern...

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biology Landscape ecology Lotka–Volterra equations Oscillation Population viability analysis Predation Spatial heterogeneity Levins, R. (1969), "Some demographic...

"Local extinction Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine". Population Viability Analysis: Bay Checkerspot Butterfly. URL accessed August 11, 2006. Webb...

JSTOR 3872694. Horino, S.; Miura, S. (2000). "Population viability analysis of a Japanese black bear population". Population Ecology. 42 (1): 37–44. Bibcode:2000PopEc...

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which compete for the same limited resource cannot coexist at constant population values. When one species has even the slightest advantage over another...

D.A. Grimaldi, 2005 B.C. Patten, 1975 Bernard C. Patten (1975) Systems Analysis and Simulation in Ecology, Academic Press, 607 pages ISBN 0-12-547203-X...

"The Indochinese-Sundaic faunal transition at the Isthmus of Kra: An analysis of resident forest bird species distributions". Journal of Biogeography...

populations in North America combined with satellite telemetry data revealed significant genetic and morphological differences between one population...

resource (limiting factor). The law has also been applied to biological populations and ecosystem models for factors such as sunlight or mineral nutrients...

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of the Iberian lynx. Apex predators affect prey species' population dynamics and populations of other predators, both in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems...

population Neutral theory Occupancy–abundance relationship Population viability analysis Priority effect Rapoport's rule Relative abundance distribution...

This allows organisms on the lower levels to not only maintain a stable population, but also to transfer energy up the pyramid. The exception to this generalization...

within small populations to confer greater advantage. Analysis demonstrates that smaller populations have more significant levels of fitness from heterogeneity...

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chemosynthesizers and respiring heterotrophs are quite common. Large populations of animals can be supported by chemosynthetic secondary production at...

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