Demographic stochasticity and the variance reduction effect

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1928-1934

  Fox, Gordon A ^a   Kendall, Bruce E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Demography; Extinction risk; Homogeneous populations; Population viability analysis; Stochastic demography; Variance reduction effect

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION RISK; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 0037800361     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[1928:DSATVR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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