Conservation Biology

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Conservation Biology.

• Breeding back — Select among living domestic descendants for inherited traits associated with an extinct or altered ancestral form, producing a new lineage that resembles the target without recreating its lost genome.
• Decline in amphibian populations — The documented widespread reduction, disappearance and extinction of amphibian populations since the late twentieth century, arising from interacting habitat, disease, pollution, climate and other pressures.
• Minimum viable population — A model-dependent lower population bound associated with a specified probability of persistence over a stated time horizon under demographic, environmental, genetic and catastrophic uncertainty.