What does MVP stand for?

Minimum Viable Population

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Marketing Vice President (various organizations) Master Verification Plan Maximising Velocity and Power Track and Field Club (Kingston, Jamaica) Mean-Variance Portfolio (theory) Mentors in Violence Prevention Meridian Venture Partners (Pennsylvania) Milestone Venture Partners (New York, NY) Mill Valley Philharmonic Millennium View Point Millennium Village Project (various organizations)		Ministarstvo Vanjskih Poslova I Europskih Integracija (Croatia Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration) Mission, Vision, Purpose (various organizations) Mitral Valve Prolapse Mobile Variance Platform (Bitfone Corporation) Mobile Virtualization Platform (software) Mobile, Voice, Positional Mobility Validation Plan Model View Presenter Modular Voice Processor Moeco Vietnam Petroleum Co., Ltd. (energy industry)

Samples in periodicals archive:

The main management strategy is to maintain abalone densities above a minimum viable population (MVP) level below which recruitment would likely be diminished and the fishery would collapse (Shepherd & Brown 1993, ARMP).

Application of recent red abalone Haliotis rufescens surveys to ...

Modeling population dynamics is crucial to determining minimum viable population sizes and ranking conservation priorities.

Modeling extinction: density-dependent changes in the variance of ...

Thus, knowing the minimum viable population size depends on knowing the mating system.

Integrating animal behavior and conservation biology--a review

Its main population contains more than 14,000 plants, and the 2 transplant populations have reached or surpassed their minimum viable population size.

Robbins' cinquefoil (Potentilla robbinsiana)

Conservation biology principles, unlike diversity indices or mathematical formulae for determining minimum viable populations, describe factors responsible for the structure and functioning of ecosystems.

Eliminating the National Forest Management Act's diversity ...

Using the demographic models, we estimated minimum viable population size (MVP) with this extinction probability for Cirsium pitcheri to be approximately 500 plants for the Illinois Beach population south of the Dead River.

Reintroducing pitcher's thistle

The pack of wolves throwing their primeval howls through the wilderness of Idaho becomes a minimum viable population under the Endangered Species Act.

Environmental scholarship for a new millennium

What do real population dynamics tell us about minimum viable population sizes?

Endangered Invertebrates: The Case for Greater Attention to ...