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1 Population size and Conservation Determining whether a population is growing or shrinking Predicting future population size Non-genetic risks of small populations 1

2 Population Viability Analysis (PVA) Use of quantitative methods to evaluate and predict the likely future status of a population 2

3 Definitions PVA = Use of quantitative methods to evaluate and predict the likely future status of a population Status = likelihood that a population will be above a minimum size Minimum size, quasi-extinction threshold = number below which extinction is very likely due to genetic or demographic risks 3

4 Uses of PVA Assessment Assessing risk of a single population (for example Grizzly population) 4

5 NPS Photo 5

6 Grizzly population size in Yellowstone national park 6

7 Grizzlies are listed as threatened 1975; less than 200 bears left in Yellowstone 1983 Grizzly Bear recovery area (red) Increase of protection area discussed (blue) 7

8 Uses of PVA Assessment Assessing risk of a single population (for example Grizzly population) Comparing risks between different populations 8

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10 Sockeye and Steelhead catch

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12 Uses of PVA Assessment Assessing risk of a single population (for example Grizzly population) Comparing risks between different populations Analyzing monitoring data how many years of data are needed to determine extinction risk? Example: Gray Whale 12

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14 Gray Whale 14

15 How many data points do we need? 5 years? 10 years? 15 years? Gerber, Leah R., Douglas P. Demaster, and Peter M. Kareiva* Gray Whales and the Value of Monitoring Data in Implementing the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Conservation Biology 13:

16 Uses of PVA Assessment Identify best ways to manage. Example: loggerhead turtles 16

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18 Uses of PVA Assessment Identify best ways to manage. Example: loggerhead turtles Determine necessary reserve size. Example: African elephants 18

19 PVA indicates minimum of 2,500 km 2 needed to sustain population 19

20 Uses of PVA Assessment Assisting management Identify best ways to manage. Example: loggerhead turtles Determine necessary reserve size. Example: African elephants Determine size of population to reintroduce Example: European beaver 20

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22 Uses of PVA Assessment Assisting management Identify best ways to manage. Example: loggerhead turtles Determine necessary reserve size. Example: African elephants Determine size of population to reintroduce Example: European beaver Set limit to harvest (intentional and unintentional) 22

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24 Uses of PVA Assessment Assisting management Identify best ways to manage. Example: loggerhead turtles Determine necessary reserve size. Example: African elephants Determine size of population to reintroduce Example: European beaver Set limit to harvest (intentional and unintentional) Intentional Harvest and By-Catch Habitat degradation 24

25 Assessment Assisting management Uses of PVA Identify best ways to manage. Example: loggerhead turtles Determine necessary reserve size. Example: African elephants Determine size of population to reintroduce Example: European beaver Set limit to harvest (intentional and unintentional) Intentional harvest Habitat degradation By-catch How many populations do we need to protect? 25

26 The Saga of the Furbish Lousewort Kate Furbish was a woman who, a century ago, Discovered something growing, and she classified it so That botanists thereafter, in their reference volumes state, That the plant's a Furbish lousewort. See, they named it after Kate. There were other kinds of louseworts, but the Furbish one was rare. It was very near extinction when they found out it was there. And as the years went by, it seemed, with ravages of weather, The poor old Furbish lousewort simply vanished altogether. But then in 1976, our bicentennial year, Furbish lousewort fanciers had some good news they could cheer. For along the Saint John River, guess what somebody found? Two hundred fifty Furbish louseworts growing in the ground. Now, the place where they were growing, by the Saint John River banks, Is not a place where you or I would want to live, no thanks. For in that very area, there was a mightty plan, An engineering project for the benefit of man. The Dickey-Lincoln Dam it's called, hydroelectric power. Energy, in other words, the issue of the hour. Make way, make way for progress now, man's ever-constant urge. And where those Furbish louseworts were, the dam would just submerge. The plants can't be transplanted; they simply wouldn't grow. Conditions for the Furbish louseworts have to be just so. And for reasons far too deep for me to know to explain, The only place they can survive is in that part of Maine. So, obviously it was clear that something had to give, And giant dams do not make way so that a plant can live. But hold the phone, for yes, they do. Indeed they must in fact. There is a law, the Federal Endangered Species Act, And any project such as this, though mighty and exalted, If it wipes out threatened animals or plants, it must be halted. And since the Furbish lousewort is endangered as can be, They had to call the dam off, couln't build it, don't you see. For to flood that louseworth haven, where the Furbishes were at, Would be to take away their only extant habitat. And the only way to save the day, to end this awful stall, Would be to find some other louseworts, anywhere at all. And sure enough, as luck would have it, strange though it may seem, They found some other Furbish louseworts growing just downstream. Four tiny little colonies, one with just a single plant. Dickey-Lincoln Dam was too laden with ecological and economic problems to ever be built, and the Furbish lousewort has held its own along the ice-scoured banks of the Saint John. In 1989 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reported finding 6,889 flowering stems--far more than the 250 or so that were thought to exist earlier. Pedicularis furbishiae, a species with close relatives in Asia but nowhere else in North America, is still endangered, however. The current threats are new dam proposals, logging, and real-estate development 26

27 Types of PVA Count based PVA: simple -- uses census data (head counts) Structured PVA: uses demographic models (age structure) 27

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29 PVM: Count based model N t = λn t 1 population size at time t population size at time t-1 lambda = growth rate includes birth and death does not include gene flow (movement among different populations) 29

30 What does λ mean N t = λn t 1 λ < 1 λ =1 λ > 1 Population is shrinking Population is stable Population is growing 30

31 Predicting future population sizes N 1 = λn 0 N 2 = λn 1 = λ(λn 0 )=λ 2 N 1 N t = λ t N 0 31

32 Example N t = λ t N 0 For some insect,!=1.2 and N 0 = 150 How many insects will we have in 10 years? N 10! =! 150*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2*1.2!!!!!!! =! 150 * !!!!!!! =! 150 * 6.19!!!!!!! =!!

33 Measuring! from data If we known the population size in two generations we are able to calculate the growth rate λ = N t N t 1 33

34 Incorporating stochasticity into model Cyclical example!! For some insect, good = 1.3, bad = 1.1 and N 0 = 150 Assume good/bad years alternate. How many insects will we have in 10 years? N 10 = 150*1.1*1.3*1.1*1.3*1.1*1.3*1.1*1.3*1.1*1.3!!!!!! =

35 Stochasticity Cyclical example With no variability of! (= 1.2) With variability of! (! good = 1.3,! bad = 1.1) N 10 = 929 N 10 = 897 Influence of small! is larger 35

36 N 0 = 150 λ = Stochasticity { 1.3 with p = with p =0.5 N 10 = = 642 N 10 = =

37 N 0 = 150 λ = Stochasticity { 1.3 with p = with p =0.5 N 10 = = 642 N 10 = =

38 Mean! = 1 Population Density (Ln) TIME 38

39 Stochasticity Models without a stochastic component produce ONE population size Models with a stochastic component produce a distribution of possible population sizes 39

40 Distribution of population sizes Population size Population size frequency 40

41 Measuring! from data If we known the population size in two generations we are able to calculate the growth rate λ = N t N t 1 41

42 Estimation of growth rate with more than two time points λ t G = λ t λ t 1 λ t 2...λ 0 N t = λ t N 0 λ G =(λ t λ t 1 λ t 2...λ 0 ) 1/t µ = ln(λ G ) λ = N t N t 1 = (ln(λ t)+ln(λ t 1 )+ln(λ t 2 )...ln(λ 0 ) t 42

43 Estimation of average growth rate µ = (ln(λ t)+ln(λ t 1 )+ln(λ t 2 )...ln(λ 0 ) t " is the average over all ln(!) > 0 then λ G > 1and population is mostly growing µ 0 then λ G 1 and population size is constant < 0 then λ G < 1 and population is mostly shrinking 43

44 Example: Grizzly bears in Yellowstone park NPS Photo 44

45 Grizzly population size in Yellowstone national park 45

46 Grizzly population size in Yellowstone national park Female grizzly bears Census year 46

47 Grizzly population size in Yellowstone national park Growth rate! λ t = N t N t 1 Change of growth rate over time Census year 47

48 Grizzly population size in Yellowstone national park Change of ln(growth rate) over time Ln(Growth rate!) ln(λ t )=ln( N t N t 1 ) Census year 48

49 Average growth curve Change of ln(growth rate) over time Ln(Growth rate!) ln(λ t )=ln( N t N t 1 ) average growth Census year 49

50 Grizzly population size in Yellowstone national park ˆµ = 1 T T t=1 ln( N t N t 1 ) ˆσ 2 = 1 T 1 T t=1 (ln( N t N t 1 ) ˆµ) 2 µ = σ 2 = The average growth rate is positive, so Grizzlies survive in Yellowstone park, right? 50

51 Confidence intervals Freq ˆµ = ˆµ σ 2 = σ = % ˆµ 2σ ˆµ σ ˆµ + σ 95% of all values 2.5% ˆµ +2σ µ 51

52 Extinction probability One does not try to predict when the last individual is gone but when the population size goes below a threshold, the quasi-extinction threshold, under which the population is critically and immediately imperiled (Ginzburg et al. 1982) A value of 20 reproductive individuals is often used for practical purposes. Genetic arguments would ask for 100 or more reproductive individuals 52

53 Relationship between the probability of extinction and the parameters " and # 2 A population goes extinct when its size falls below the quasi-extinction threshold. if " is negative, eventually the population goes extinct, independent of the variance of the growth rate # 2. if " is positive, there is still a risk to fall under the quasiextinction threshold, depending on the magnitude of the variance of the growth rate, with high variance, the risk is higher to go extinct than with low variance. Extinction risk depends on the average growth rate ", the variance of the growth rate, and time. 53

54 Cumulative risk of extinction Extinction probability µ = 0.01 σ 2 = µ = 0.01 σ 2 =0.04 N threshold =1 N census = 10 Years from now 54

55 Cumulative risk of extinction Extinction probability N threshold =1 N census = µ = 0.01 σ 2 = Years from now µ = 0.01 σ 2 =0.04 µ =0.01 σ 2 =0.12 µ =0.01 σ 2 =

56 Extinction risk for Grizzlies Extinction Probability [Log 10 ] Years from now Confidence }interval [Blow-up of top part of graph] 56

57 Using Extinction time estimates for conservation planning Adult birds: NORTH CAROLINA 460 Extinction probability Year 0.5 Adult birds: FLORIDA Year Year 57

58 When to use count-based PVMs? When only few data is available, we still need about 10 years of census data to get usable extinction risk estimates. This method is useful to compare multiple populations; to give a relative population health (in comparison to these other populations). Simplicity [there are many assumption] 58

59 Key assumptions of count based PVAs The parameters " and # 2 are constant over time. No density dependence: growth rate is independent of population size. Small populations might enjoy more resources. Pessimistic estimates of extinction risk. [but density dependence of finding mates: Allee effect] Demographic stochasticity is ignored for derivation of extinction probability formula: # 2 is considered to be constant over time and independent of the population size (Remedy is to set quasi-extinction threshold sufficiently high) Environmental trends are ignored. 59

60 Key assumptions of count based PVAs The parameters " and # 2 are constant over time. No environmental autocorrelation: No catastrophes or bonanzas The extinction probability calculations was derived by assuming only small changes of the population size over time: Catastrophes, such as ice storms, wild fires, droughts, etc. will reduce numbers fast, and are not taken into account [too positive view]; bonanzas (good years) are also not taken into account [too pessimistic view] No observation error, the numbers are treated as true population sizes. (only one population: no population structure) Individuals are all treated all the same NO λ t 1 λ t 60

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