Evaluation of minimum viable population size and conservation status of the long-furred woolly mouse opossum Micoureus paraguayanus: An endemic marsupial of the Atlantic Forest

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1713-1728

  Brito, Daniel ^a,c   Da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atlantic Forest; Extinction; IUCN; Micoureus; Minimum viable population (MVP); Population viability analysis (PVA); Quasi extinction; Risk assessment; VORTEX

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION SIZE; RED LIST;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

DIDELPHIDAE; METATHERIA; MICOUREUS; MICOUREUS DEMERARAE; MICOUREUS PARAGUAYANUS;

EID: 33646884410     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-5019-8     Document Type: Article

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