Estimating the rate of quasi-extinction of the Australian grey nurse shark (Carcharias taurus) population using deterministic age- and stage-classified models

Biological Conservation

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-350

  Otway, Nicholas M ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^b   Harcourt, Robert G ^c  

^a NSW Fisheries   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carcharias taurus; Elasticities; Endangered; Fisheries related mortality; Grey nurse shark; Leslie matrix models; South eastern Australia; Survival

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING; SHARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; PACIFIC COAST [AUSTRALIA];

CARCHARIAS; CARCHARIAS TAURUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM; GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE;

EID: 3042826845     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.11.017     Document Type: Article

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