How Many Animals Do We Want to Save? The Many Ways of Setting Population Target Levels for Conservation

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What Does It Mean to Successfully Conserve a (Vertebrate) Species? (2011, background): “The answer depends on the values of those asking the question (e.g., Sanderson 2006), which are all too often elided or poorly understood.”
TetraDENSITY: A database of population density estimates in terrestrial vertebrates (2018, background): “Population density has been widely investigated in macroecology and is fundamental to conservation because it is a direct proxy for extinction risk (Brown, Mehlman, & Stevens, 1995; Currie & Fritz, 1993; Sanderson, 2006).”
By the Numbers: How is Recovery Defined by the US Endangered Species Act? (2012, background): “…populations, there is little scientific guidance for exactly how many individuals and populations are sufficient for recovery (Neel and Cummings 2003, Svancara et al. 2005, Tear et al. 2005, Sanderson 2006, Neel 2008), and no specific abundance is appropriate across all taxa (Flather et al. 2011).”
Global drivers of population density in terrestrial vertebrates (2018, background): “Clearly, it also represents a crucial information for conservation planning as it is a direct proxy for extinction risk (Brown, Mehlman, & Stevens, 1995; Currie & Fritz, 1993; Sanderson, 2006).”