New insights on cheetah conservation through demographic modeling

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 889-895

  Crooks, Kevin R ^a   Sanjayan, M A ^a   Doak, Daniel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL;

ACINONYX JUBATUS;

EID: 0031857710     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.97054.x     Document Type: Article

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