The word “new” is a funny term in this context, as one might think that most of what could be said about minimum viable populations (MVP) has been said already. Nevertheless, it seems the subject is still always good for a debate, a point proven by a two recent reviews and responses in TREE. In…
In a new paper (Johst et al., 2011) led by Karin Johst, we examine trade-offs regarding extinction risk between number, connectivity and turnover of habitat patches of habitat networks. The paper is based on a previous work by (Drechsler & Johst, 2010). Knowing the trade-offs between these spatio-temporal landscape attributes is crucial for dynamic conservation…
I’m lagging a little behind the news, but maybe it’s also an advantage to write about this issue after the first smoke has cleared. The topic is a paper by Fangliang He and Stephen Hubbell that appeared in Nature two weeks ago and that has sparked considerable controversy. Basically, the authors claim that “conventional” extinction…
theoretical ecology 