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Population viability
Organisms & populations
The capacity or probability of a population to persist for a specified period under stated demographic and environmental conditions, commonly expressed in terms of extinction risk. Viability should not be treated as equivalent to ecological effectiveness.
Shaffer, M. L. (1981). Minimum population sizes for species conservation. BioScience, 31(2), 131–134. Boyce, M. S. (1992). Population viability analysis. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 23, 481–506.
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