Sensitivity of population viability to spatial and nonspatial parameters using grip

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1002-1013

  Curtis, J M R ^a,b   Naujokaitis Lewis, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision support tool; Lacerta agilis; Recovery planning; Sand lizard; Sensitivity analysis; Spatial population viability analysis; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CARRYING CAPACITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GRIP; LIZARD; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

LACERTA AGILIS; SQUAMATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWEDEN;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE; SWEDEN;

EID: 50549084598     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1306.1     Document Type: Article

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