Projecting viability of Totoaba macdonaldi, a population with unknown age-dependent variability

Ecological Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 968-980

  Cisneros Mata, Miguel A ^a,b   Botsford, Louis W ^a   Quinn, James F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE LA PESCA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Age structure; Extinction; Population viability; Random environment; Totoaba

Indexed keywords

TOTOABA; TOTOABA MACDONALDI;

EID: 0030856180     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269447     Document Type: Article

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