Evaluating the Small Population Paradigm for Rare Large-Bodied Woodpeckers, with Implications for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

Six large-bodied, ≥ 120 g, woodpecker species are listed as near-threatened to critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The small population paradigm assumes that these populations are likely to become extinct without an increase in numbers, but the combine...

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Main Authors: Brady J. Mattsson, Rua S. Mordecai, Michael J. Conroy, James T. Peterson, Robert J. Cooper, Hans Christensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2008-12-01
Series:Avian Conservation and Ecology
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Online Access:http://www.ace-eco.org/vol3/iss2/art5/