Quantifying conservation concern - Bayesian statistics, birds and the red lists

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1436-1441

  Brooks, Stephen P ^a   Freeman, Stephen N ^b   Greenwood, Jeremy J D ^b   King, Ruth ^c   Mazzetta, Chiara ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance; Demography; Management; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RED LIST; WADER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; VANELLUS VANELLUS;

EID: 44149089270     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.03.009     Document Type: Article

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