Assessing extinction risk: Integrating genetic information

Ecology and Society

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Dunham, Jason ^a   Peacock, Mary ^a   Tracy, C Richard ^a   Nielsen, Jennifer ^b   Vinyard, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction risk; Genetic variation; Incidence function analysis; Population viability analysis; Ranking methods; Risk assessment; Spatial scale; Temporal scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249153437     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00087-030102     Document Type: Article

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