It is believed to be extinct in the wild with no known
viable populations remaining in their natural habitat.
Not exact matches
A single species, individual or
population, can have mutations,
viable mutations, and still
remain the same species.
If the current fertility level continues, Europe's
population of 727 million will plummet to 556 million by the year 2050, requiring more than three million immigrants per year for the next fifty years if Europe is to
remain economically
viable.
Furthermore, the researchers suspect that even if habitat destruction were to halt in these areas, the
remaining large animal species would have little chance of maintaining
viable populations beyond the next few decades.
This is at least suggested by the observation that the mesenchymal subpopulation in the HMLE model
remains viable upon most chemotherapeutic treatment regimens, under conditions that allowed the effective elimination of the epithelial
population [7].
Survival for such species will depend on whether or not
viable population sizes will
remain in areas where climate does not change unsuitably, and on the potential of surviving individuals to disperse from climatically unsuitable areas into regions with favorable climate.