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As indicated by the results above concerning populations with different
r values, the intensity of these types of differences will in part depend on
the rates of population expansion.
The conclusions derived in the above examples are likely to differ
across species with different input life history characteristics or other input
conditions (e.g., founder spacing, offspring or pollen dispersal distances).
However, they do demonstrate how the rate of reproduction, r, and the
growth rate of populations can be compared across trials to obtain targets for
population manipulation in a given set of circumstances to maximize genetic
diversity retention and/or population growth. In such considerations,
calculating the generation-to-generation growth factor, instead of using r,
may provide information that can more readily be used to generate growth
targets for a given population at a particular point in time.
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