Accounting for management costs in sensitivity analyses of matrix population models

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 893-905

  Baxter, Peter W J ^a,b   McCarthy, Michael A ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^b   Menkhorst, Peter W ^c   McLean, Natasha ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Department of Sustainability and Environment ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Elasticity; Marginal costs; Marginal efficiency; Optimization; Perturbation analysis; Population management; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; MARSUPIAL; PERTURBATION; POPULATION MODELING; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; KOALA; METHODOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AVES; LICHENOSTOMUS MELANOPS CASSIDIX; MOHO BRACCATUS; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 33745131772     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00378.x     Document Type: Article

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