Environmental Variation and the Persistence of Small Populations.

@article{Stacey1992EnvironmentalVA,
  title={Environmental Variation and the Persistence of Small Populations.},
  author={Peter B. Stacey and Mark L. Taper},
  journal={Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America},
  year={1992},
  volume={2 1},
  pages={
          18-29
        }
}
  • P. StaceyM. Taper
  • Published 1 February 1992
  • Environmental Science
  • Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
Understanding the factors that determine the continued survival of small populations is a central problem in conservation biology. The Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) naturally occurs in small, isolated populations throughout much of the American Southwest. In spite of this distributional pattern, the species is neither rare nor endangered. Thus it appears to have successfully "solved" the problems to the problems of habitat fragmentation. We used data from a 10-yr field study and… 
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