Société nationale de protection de la nature et d'acclimatation de France, Paris (FRA)
Abstract
The population dynamics of small populations is attracting a lot of interest from
conservation biologists. This can involve declining populations or on the other hand eruptions
often related to human activities; reintroduction programmes are also concerned. In particular,
attention should be drawn to the serious threats that certain eruptions represent to the
biodiversity of the whole system. These questions also concern more theoretical studies in
population biology. Notable progress has been made in this domain and it must be taken into
account. The congress at Niederbronn attracted more fundamental contributions, which are
presented here in abstract form, and contributions from practising conservation biologists
which make up the majority of the present publicatio