Conservation Management and Population Dynamics

These flashcards cover key concepts related to conservation management actions, population dynamics, and studies illustrating effective management strategies.

Conservation Management

Actions applied to small populations to prevent extinction, improve viability, identify limiting factors, and monitor impacts.

Vital Rates

Demographic rates affecting population growth such as survival, breeding success, and recruitment.

Population Limiting Factors

Factors that reduce survival or reproduction, including predation, habitat loss, disease, food shortage, and climate.

Supplemental Feeding

A management action that can improve survival, breeding success, and juvenile recruitment by reducing food limitation.

Olive White-Eye Feeding Study

A study where nectar was replaced with sugar water, which was cheaper and lasted longer, without reducing breeding success.

Rat Control Study

A quasi-experiment comparing territories with and without rat control that showed reduced rat abundance and a 5-fold increase in annual productivity.

Nest Boxes

Tools that increase breeding success and facilitate monitoring by providing accessible nesting sites.

Capture-Mark-Recapture

A method used to estimate survival, movement, and abundance by marking animals and later recapturing or resighting them.

Monitoring in Conservation

Important for determining whether management affects vital rates or abundance and for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions.

Management Pathway to Population Growth

Management reduces limiting factors, improving survival or reproduction, which increases recruitment and overall population growth.