Pitfalls of applying adaptive management to a wolf population in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

Environmental Management

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 451-460

  Theberge, John B ^a,b   Theberge, Mary T ^b   Vucetich, John A ^c   Paquet, Paul C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b RR#2 ^*  (Canada)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Park; Scientific method; Wolf

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PARKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PROBABILITY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; SCIENTIFIC METHOD; WOLF;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CANID; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARNIVORE; ECOSYSTEM; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLITICS; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WOLF;

AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ONTARIO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; WOLVES;

ALGONQUIN PROVINCIAL PARK; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS LYCAON;

EID: 33644624648     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-004-1041-6     Document Type: Article

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