Extinction risk of heterogeneous populations

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1191-1198

  Fox, Gordon A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation biology; Demographic stochasticity; Extinction risk; Heterogeneous populations; Individual phenotypes; Stochastic demography

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION RISK; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 18444374442     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0594     Document Type: Article

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