Quantitative conservation biology : theory and practice of population viability analysis

Preface - What Is PVA, and How Can It Be Used in Conservation Decision-making? - The Causes and Quantification of Population Vulnerability - Count-based PVA: Density-independent Models - Count-based PVA: Incorporating Density Dependence, Demographic Stochasticity, Correlated Environments, Catastrophes and Bonanzas - Accounting for Observation Error in Count-based PVAs - Demographic PVAs: Using Demographic Data to Build Stochastic Projection Matrix Models - Demographic PVAs: Using Projection Matrices to Assess Population Growth and Viability - Demographic PVAs Based on Vital Rates: Removing Sampling Variation and Incorporating Large Variance, Correlated Environments, Demographic Stochasticity, and Density…