T he threats to biodiversity resulting from human activities, and the understandable
reluctance to perturb their study subject, often prevent ecologists from developing their own …

Our understanding of any system constitutes a model of that system. In a reintroduction, the
systems of interest are usually the source population, the reintroduced population, the …

Elasticity analysis is a useful tool in conservation biology. The relative impacts of
proportional changes in fertility, juvenile survival, and adult survival on asymptotic …

Populations of oriental white-backed vulture (Gyps bengalensis), long-billed vulture (Gyps
indicus) and slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris) crashed during the mid-1990s …

Reintroductions are often used for reestablishment of animal populations. The choice of age‐
class of released individuals, however, is often arbitrary or based on expediency. We …

I examined the expected detrimental effects of restricted gene flow, a consequence of
population fragmentation, through a population genetics model. The model predicts the …

Matrix population models have entered the mainstream of conservation biology, with
analysis of proportional sensitivities (elasticity analysis) of demographic rates becoming …

The field of plant population ecology has advanced considerably in the last decade since
the first edition was published. In particular there have been substantial and ongoing …

Conservation biology must be able to provide guidelines even when available data are
incomplete, because data on rare and endangered species are usually limited. For instance …

Underlying the many causes of extinction of small populations is the random fate of each
constituent individual or, in other words, demographic stochasticity. Demographic …