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Small populations are very often discussed, but there seems to be no general overview touching all the self-evident but normally simply neglected problems connected with small populations. First, there are many very different types of organisms, and as every biologist should know, the problems of small populations are very different in different types of organisms.
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Remmert, H. (1994). Introduction. In: Remmert, H. (eds) Minimum Animal Populations. Ecological Studies, vol 106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78214-5_1
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