How best to collect demographic data for population viability analysis models

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1115-1120

  Münzbergová, Zuzana ^a,b   Ehrlén, Johan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Demography; Elasticity; Matrix population model; Population growth rate; Population viability analysis; Sampling

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 31344468815     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01099.x     Document Type: Article

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