Viability analysis of reef fish populations based on limited demographic information

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 447-454

  Wielgus, Jeffrey ^a,c   Ballantyne IV, Ford ^b   Sala, Enric ^b   Gerber, Leah R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

El Ni o; Environmental variability; Gulf of California; Marine protected areas; Matrix population models; Mycteroperca; Population viability analysis; Reef fish

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHY; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; MARINE PARK; MARINE RESOURCE; OVERFISHING; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; VIABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISH; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT; FISHES; MEXICO; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

FELIDAE; MYCTEROPERCA; MYCTEROPERCA ROSACEA; PISCES;

EID: 33947513608     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00644.x     Document Type: Article

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