Conservation

Question 0

What is carrying capacity and what is it affected by?

Answer 0

Carrying capacity is the natural limit set on populations by availability of resources.
It is affected by number of competitors.

Question 1

What does BIDE stand for?

Answer 1

Birth, immigration, death, emigration

Question 2

What is environmental stochasticity and how does it lead to population decline?

Answer 2

Answer later

Question 3

Problems applying MSY

Answer 3

Very difficult to get accurate estimates of population size.
Carrying capacity changes - impossible to estimates.
Basic demographic data rare, vary between populations.
Difficult to get measures of other forms of mortality.
Social systems and mating strategies - often unknown.
Pays to over-harvest long lived species, drive extinction.

Question 4

Inbreeding depression

Answer 4

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Question 5

Outbreeding depression

Answer 5

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Question 6

Black-footed ferret reintroduction program

Answer 6

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Question 7

Golden lion tamarin reintroduction

Answer 7

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