Does population viability analysis software predict the behaviour of real populations? A retrospective study on the Lord Howe island woodhen Tricholimnas sylvestris (Sclater)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 119-128

  Brook, Barry W ^c   Leong, Lim ^a   Harden, Robert ^b   Frankham, Richard ^c  

^a Countrywide Ecological Services ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Extinction; Population viability analysis; Threatened; Tricholimnas sylvestris

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343417022     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00026-8     Document Type: Article

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