Life stage simulation analysis: Estimating vital-rate effects on population growth for conservation

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 628-641

  Wisdom, Michael J ^a,d   Mills, L Scott ^b   Doak, Daniel F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Pacific Northwest Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Elasticity; Finite rate of increase; Gopherus agassizii (desert tortoise); Life stage simulation analysis and importance; Matrix population models; Population growth; Sensitivity; Species conservation; Tympanuchus cupido (Greater Prairie Chicken); Variance and covariance; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION GROWTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CUPIDO; GALLUS GALLUS; GOPHERUS AGASSIZII; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033934958     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[0628:LSSAEV]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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