On the interpretation and application of mean times to extinction

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1539-1547

  Vucetich, John A ^a   Waite, Thomas A ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution of times to extinction; Extinction; Mean time to extinction; Population viability analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION; MODELING;

EID: 0032467374     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008808617633     Document Type: Article

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