Predictors of avian and mammalian translocation success: Reanalysis with phylogenetically independent contrasts

Biological Conservation

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 243-255

  Magdalena Wolf, C ^a   Garland Jr , Theodore ^a   Griffith, Brad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b US National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Comparative method; Mammals; Phylogenetically independent contrasts; Reintroduction; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; AVIFAUNA; MAMMAL; NATURE CONSERVATION; PHYLOGENETICS; TRANSLOCATION;

AVES; CANIS; GALLIFORMES; MAMMALIA; PHRAGMITES;

EID: 0344352489     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00179-1     Document Type: Article

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