Estimates of minimum viable population sizes for vertebrates and factors influencing those estimates

Biological Conservation

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-34

  Reed, David H ^a,d   O'Grady, Julian J ^a   Brook, Barry W ^b   Ballou, Jonathan D ^c   Frankham, Richard ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographic stochasticity; Endangered species; Extinction; Minimum viable population size; Population variability; Population viability analysis

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION SIZE; VIABILITY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038348575     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00346-4     Document Type: Article

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