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Performance

Planning diagnostics

The degree to which an organism or population present and persisting in a landscape achieves the specified biological or ecological outcome for which it is being evaluated. Depending on the objective, performance may concern reproduction, survival, movement, ecological interaction, or ecological work. Used with presence and persistence, performance establishes a progressively more demanding test of what a landscape enables an organism to do rather than simply whether it occurs there.

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