14548 IUPAC Gold Book - conservation ecology 10.1351/goldbook.14548 14548 current 1 Science of analyzing and protecting the Earth’s biological diversity. Conservation ecology is based on the biological, physical, and social sciences, economics, and the practice of natural-resource management. It concentrates on population dynamics issues associated with the small population sizes of rare species (e.g., minimum viable populations). minimum viable populations https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14859 population dynamics https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14936 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 861 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14548/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14548/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14548/plain Citation: 'conservation ecology' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14548 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-21T11:49:24+00:00