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Why Plant Population Viability Assessment?

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Population Viability in Plants

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 165))

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As Conservation Biology has matured into its role as an integral and applied branch of the Ecological Sciences, there are several topics that have fallen clearly under its umbrella. Assessing the likelihood that a population will persist, a population viability analysis (PVA) is one of several critical central questions of Conservation Biology. PVA has been a popular tool in research and management of populations since its inception. Recently, the number of PVAs performed for plants has increased radically (Menges 2000). Although there has been a long-standing interest in population dynamics in plants (e.g., Silvertown 1987), the issues involved in understanding the population dynamics of rare plants has acquired a recent urgency due to the large numbers of rare plants currently on the endangered species list and threatened worldwide.

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Schwartz, M.W., Brigham, C.A. (2003). Why Plant Population Viability Assessment?. In: Brigham, C.A., Schwartz, M.W. (eds) Population Viability in Plants. Ecological Studies, vol 165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09389-4_1

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