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This study examines whether minimum viable population (MVP) thresholds may be too high for some long-lived species by using bog turtles as a case study. The authors developed a demographic model for bog turtles using 10 years of capture-recapture data. Their results suggest that bog turtle populations with as few as 15 breeding females have over a 90% chance of persisting for over 100 years. This challenges general MVP guidelines of hundreds to thousands of individuals. The authors argue that small, fragmen

Author

BIBIANA STELLA DUARTE RESTREPO

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