Prospective and retrospective perturbation analyses: Their roles in conservation biology

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 619-627

  Caswell, Hal ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Elasticity analysis; Life table response experiments; Matrix population models; Population growth rate; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033920227     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0619:PARPAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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