Using Transfer Function Analysis to develop biologically and economically efficient restoration strategies.

ABSTRACT: Rare species across taxonomic groups and biomes commonly suffer from multiple threats and require intensive restoration, including population reintroduction and threat control. Following reintroduction, it is necessary to identify what level of threat control is needed for species to persist over time. Population reintroduction and threat control are time intensive and costly. Thus, it is pragmatic to develop economically efficient restoration strategies. We combined transfer function analysis and economic cost analysis to evaluate the effects of biologically meaningful increases in demographic processes on the persistence of a reintroduced population of a Hawaii endemic long-lived shrub, Delissea waianaeensis. We show that an increase in fertility by 0.419 following the suppression of non

SUBMITTER: Bialic-Murphy L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5794749 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature