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Announcements. Corrected mistakes on slides from last lectures VORTEX Help READ VORTEX survival guide! Leads you step by step through VORTEX. Get started this weekend so you can identify any problems before its too late!. General Predictors of Extinction. Current population size. +.
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Announcements • Corrected mistakes on slides from last lectures • VORTEX Help • READ VORTEX survival guide! • Leads you step by step through VORTEX. • Get started this weekend so you can identify any problems before its too late!
General Predictors of Extinction Current population size + Population Growth - Population Size
Deterministic Variation in B&D: Density • Calculation of r from life table assumes density-independent model
Density-Dependence in Vortex DI: growth w/ ceiling K, maximum size X DD Population Size 0 Time
Where Are We Measuring “r” “Intrinsic” r or r-max Growth Rate “Realized” r K 0 Density
Are we measuring “r” at K? r-max Growth Rate DI Model 0 Density DD Model K
Implication of DD vs. DI • Assuming DI may bias the probability of persistence, depending on where r-realized is measured • Unfortunately, these essential data are rarely available!
Rhino PVA 45 % Breeding 40 33 Density Additional assignment for grad. students: Report to class next Wednesday.
DD in Vortex • Only possible for % females breeding. • “Work around” possible for DD in survivorship. • If DD growth is expected for your population, specify that reproduction is DD, and follow instructions (see Tashi or myself for help).
The Allee Effect in Vortex • Decide if an Allee effect is appropriate for your population. • If so, specify that reproduction is DD, and follow instructions (see Tashi or myself for help).
Critiques of PVA • Models require too much data • Models typically result in wide confidence intervals. • Models can not be “validated” • Focus instead on parameter estimation. • Models are error prone
Model Output = Model Input Parameter Estimates Vortex Model Predictions
Creativity and VORTEX • Vortex assumes one reproductiveseason/year. • If your species has 2 clutches/yr., then:
A Defense of PVA Brook, B. W., J. J. O'Grady, A. P. Chapman, M. A. Burgman, H. R. Akçakaya, and R. Frankham. 2000. Predictive accuracy of population viability analysis in conservation biology. Nature 404:385-387.
Conceptual Utility of PVA • It identifies the population, not land, as the critical unit for conservation purposes. • The term “viability” stresses long term population persistence and emphasizes self-sustainability. • The idea of “minimum” emphasizes that there may be a threshold below which a population is doomed to extinction.