Evaluating extinction in rare habitats: an essay
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https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2003.v59.i2-3.256Keywords:
aquatic subterranean domain, extinction risk, PVA, bathynelids, Iberian PeninsulaAbstract
Inference and estimation are the Achilles heel of many biological disciplines. The validation of results is the first step before taking any further decision. In Biodiversity studies the technical problems in validation are similar to those faced in other disciplines. The main difference with areas like medicine is that a validation error in the latter can easily take you to court, but very few responsibilities apart from moral or ethical ones generally derive from a faulty estimation or validation in Biodiversity. However, many political decisions concerning conservation issues, which in many cases affect powerful economic interests depend on the reliability of those biodiversity studies. Getting good, reliable information is not always easy, and this explains in part, the success of critical voices like Simon (1998) and Lomborg (2001). New methodologies like Population Viability Analysis has been developed to take advantage of the potential information contained in periodical sampling. We apply it to a peculiar and difficult to study fauna: the fauna of the aquatic subterranean environment. Lack of regular information and scarcity of the fauna due to difficulty to reach their proper habitat are the main problems that confront this analysis. However, despite its limitations, the analysis points towards a need to better understand the structure of the subterranean habitat from “an animal point of view” and the need of more regular sampling at the same time that the other environmental parameters are taken.
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2003-12-30
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Camacho AI, Valdecasas AG. Evaluating extinction in rare habitats: an essay. Graellsia [Internet]. 2003Dec.30 [cited 2024Jul.23];59(2-3):409-14. Available from: https://graellsia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/graellsia/article/view/256
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