Stochastic simulation modelling of southern Great Barrier Reef green turtle population dynamics

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 79-109

  Chaloupka, Milani ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental stochasticity; Great Barrier Reef; Green sea turtles; Population dynamics; Sensitivity analysis; Simulation modelling

Indexed keywords

MODELING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; TURTLE;

AUSTRALIA;

CHELONIA (GENUS); CHELONIA MYDAS; CHELONIIDAE; TESTUDINES;

EID: 0036468985     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00433-1     Document Type: Article

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