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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Economics, Trade, Law, Business, Industry > administrative management > risk analysis > risk assessment > risk assessment process > population viability analysis
Preferred Term:

population viability analysis

Definition:
The general term for the application of models that account for multiple threats facing the persistence of a population to access the likelihood of the population's persistence over a given period of time. PVA helps identify the threats faced by a species, plan research and data collection, prioritize management options, and predict the likely response of species to management actions (e.g., reintroduction, captive breeding, or prescribed burning).
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
risk assessment process
Related Concepts:
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/294917
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RDF/XMLCreated 2017-03-08, last modified 2017-11-10