A behaviorally explicit demographic model integrating habitat selection and population dynamics in california sea lions

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1608-1618

  González Suárez, Manuela ^a   Gerber, Leah R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Conservation biology; Population models; PVA; Two sex demographic models; Zalophus californianus

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT SELECTION; PINNIPED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LIFE TABLE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; LIFE TABLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA LIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ZALOPHUS; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

EID: 57449122076     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00995.x     Document Type: Article

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