Assessing conservation status and units for conservation.

This chapter addresses three questions for assessing carnivore conservation status and units for conservation: how to assess the risk of extinction for carnivore populations; how to identify and delineate carnivore conservation units; and how to assess, monitor, and manage carnivore conservation units. Topics discussed include population viability analysis, minimum viable population size, biological entities, evolutionary significant units, inbreeding depression, genetic drift, taxonomy, phylogeography, local adaptations, adaptive genetic variation, population-level management, geographic conservation, multiple-use landscapes, managed meta-population, and conservation planning.