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Conservation Biology: Foundations, Concepts, Applications
Fred Van Dyke

The Conservation of Populations

Chapter Outline

In this chapter you will learn about:

1. what populations are.

2. what causes populations to decline and become extinct.

3. how to develop a plan for the conservation of a small and declining population.

4. how to understand and manage problems associated with non-indigenous species.

5. how metapopulations can be conserved.

6. a conceptual approach to making management decisions for individual populations.