Minimum Viable Population - Population Uncertainty

Population Uncertainty

Population uncertainty may be divided into four sources:

  1. Demographic stochasticity
  2. Environmental stochasticity
  3. Natural catastrophes
  4. Genetic stochasticity

Read more about this topic:  Minimum Viable Population

Famous quotes containing the words population and/or uncertainty:

    The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.
    Adolf Hitler (1889–1945)

    Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)