Life histories and elasticity patterns: Perturbation analysis for species with minimal demographic data

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 654-665

  Heppell, Selina S ^a,c   Caswell, Hal ^b   Crowder, Larry B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age based model; Conservation; Elasticity analysis; Life history; Life table; Mammal; Management; Matrix model; Population model

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ELASTICITY; LIFE HISTORY; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 0033919025     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0654:LHAEPP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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