Factors affecting population assessments of desert tortoises

Conservation Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1479-1489

  Freilich, Jerome E ^a,c   Burnham, Kenneth P ^b   Collins, Christopher M ^a   Garry, C Ann ^a  

^a National Park Service   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; TREND ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; GOPHERUS AGASSIZII; TESTUDINIDAE;

EID: 0033781127     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2000.98360.x     Document Type: Article

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