Testing a simulation model for population viability analysis

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 580-597

  Lindenmayer, David B ^a   Lacy, Robert C ^b   Pope, Matthew L ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BROOKFIELD ZOO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arboreal marsupials; Dispersal patterns; Dispersal rates; Field testing; Forest fragmentation; Habitat quality; Interpatch migration models; Metapopulation dynamics; Population persistence; Population viability analysis; Southeastern Australia; VORTEX

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MARSUPIAL;

(SOUTHEAST); AUSTRALIA;

ANIMALIA; BASSARISCUS ASTUTUS; EUCALYPTUS; METATHERIA; PEREGRINUS; PETAUROIDES VOLANS; PHALANGERIDAE; PINUS RADIATA; PSEUDOCHEIRUS PEREGRINUS; TRICHOSURUS CANINUS;

EID: 0033863466     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0580:TASMFP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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