Uncertainty in PVA (Population Viability Analysis) Assessments
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2016)
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ecological modelling; individual-based modeling; soundscape assessment; biodiversity conservation
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Dear Colleagues,
The ecological literature traditionally deals with uncertainty, aiming to reduce it to acceptable levels. However, the current rapid and ubiquitous environmental changes, as well as anticipated rates of change, pose novel conditions and complex dynamics due to which many sources of uncertainty are difficult or even impossible to reduce.
Population Viability Analyses (PVAs) are commonly used to identify critical thresholds below which populations face extinction risk. PVAs employ models ranging from simple mathematical or statistical formulations, to complex, parameter-rich, individual-based models. Model outputs are then aggregated to deliver understandable quantitative information for decision makers, while often evicting the communication of model details, assumptions, limitations, and associated uncertainties. In this issue the aim is collecting and integrating research works aiming to tackle uncertainty in ecology.
Papers selected for this Special Issue are subjected to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of rapid and wide dissemination of research results, developments, and applications of uncertainty in ecology.
Dr. Yiannis G. Matsinos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ecological modeling;
- uncertainty;
- stochasticity;
- population viability analysis
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