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A. Status of the Spectacled Eider - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

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LU<br />

~0.8<br />

z<br />

-J<br />

~0.6<br />

I-ET1 w107 480 m117 480 lSBT<br />

004<br />

-J<br />

~0.2<br />

0<br />

0<br />

Loss if decision<br />

is not to classify<br />

Loss if decision<br />

is to classify<br />

-0.1 -0.05 0 0.05 OA<br />

POPULATION GROWTH RATE (r)<br />

Figure 11-1. Loss functions for <strong>the</strong> endangered to threatened <strong>and</strong> threatened to delisted<br />

classification decisions. Notethat <strong>the</strong> functions are symmetrical around zero. The under-protection<br />

loss is symbolized with filled squares <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> over-protection loss with open squares.<br />

Appendix II- Page 7

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