Risk-based viable population monitoring

Conservation Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1908-1916

  Staples, David F ^a   Taper, Mark L ^a   Shepard, Bradley B ^a,b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Population modeling; Population viability analysis; PVA; Species recovery; Threatened and endangered species

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33244457991     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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