On the use of demographic models of population viability in endangered species management

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 821-841

  Beissinger, Steven R ^a   Westphal, M Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endangered species; Extinction; Metapopulation; Population modeling; Population viability; Population viability analysis; Spatially explicit model; Viability

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION VARIABILITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

POTATO VIRUS A;

EID: 0031872298     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802534     Document Type: Article

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