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Ascencio, P.F.Q.
Book review: Assessing demographic change for conservation purposes
2002 Conservation Biology (16): 566-568
Modeling has become an important tool for guiding management and conservation planning. In particular, the use of computer programs to evaluate population viability has increased markedly in recent years. Several recent volumes on population viability analysis (PVA) demonstrate the demand for comprehensive reviews of this topic. An example of this effort is the outstanding volume resulting from the symposium "The Use of Population Viability Analyses in Conservation Planning", organized by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Biodiversity Centre in Stockholm in December 1997. This well-organized book reviews the structure, assumptions, and applications of the three main approaches to population viability analysis: spatially realistic occupancy models, age- or stage-structured models, and individual-based models.
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