Threshold harvesting for sustainability of fluctuating resources

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1341-1350

  Lande, Russell ^a   Sæther, Bernt Erik ^b   Engen, Steinar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Conservation; Extinction risk; Resource depletion; Stochasticity; Sustainability; Threshold harvesting; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA;

CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION RISK; STOCHASTICITY; SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING; THRESHOLD HARVESTING;

EID: 0030613983     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1341:THFSOF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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