Can culling a threatened species increase its chance of persisting?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-18

  Bode, Michael ^a   Possingham, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Culling; Optimal control; Predator prey relationships; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECOSYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

CULLING; PREDATOR-PREY RELATIONSHIPS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

ECOLOGY;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CULLING; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33845985633     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.07.038     Document Type: Article

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