Table 3 Likelihood of population extinction (E; year 10), and quasi-extinction (QE; mean abundance ≤ 5 adult females) at year 10 and 30 from 10,000 simulations for a population in slight decline (recruitment = 0.30; survivorship = 0.85; with λ ~ 0.97).

From: The abundance and persistence of Caprinae populations

Abundance

LCLλ

Meanλ

UCLλ

E(10)

QE(10)

QE(30)

10

0.40

0.94

1.40

0.13

0.44

0.74

25

0.60

0.97

1.33

0.01

0.10

0.46

50

0.66

0.97

1.28

0.00

0.01

0.25

100

0.68

0.97

1.26

0.00

0.00

0.11

250

0.70

0.98

1.25

0.00

0.00

0.09