[Coral-List] EXTINCTION THRESHOLDS IN CORALS

[John McManus]

This is a really complex issue, but one that we hope to make some progress
on via simulation. You can get some idea of the complexity and an
introduction to the literature via:

Barry W. Brook, Lochran W. Traill, Corey J. A. Bradshaw (2006) Minimum
viable population sizes and global extinction risk are unrelated 
Ecology Letters 9 (4) , 375–382 doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00883.x

Cheers!


John

John W. McManus, PhD
Director, National Center for Coral Reef Research (NCORE)
Professor, Marine Biology and Fisheries
Coral Reef Ecology and Management Lab (CREM Lab)
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS)
University of Miami, 4700 Rickenbacker Causeway, Miami, 33149
jmcmanus at rsmas.miami.edu      http://ncore.rsmas.miami.edu
 Phone: 305-421-4814   Fax: 305-421-4910

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              --Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate





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DEAR LISTERS.
I wonder whether any of you may be aware about how extinction thresholds are
determined. I ask thios beacuse I am working on the probability of
extinction of a small coral in the Caribbean. I need to know how many
colonies or individuals or population % is considered to be an extinction
risk of the population.
 
many thanks for your help

ANDREI SALCEDO GREBECHOV
Dendrobates; Biological Tourism Society
Science and Tourism Towards World Future
FUNDER PARTNER
Biologist, Pontificia University Javeriana, Colombia 
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