Inferring national and regional declines of rare orchid species with probabilistic models

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 184-195

  Duffy, Karl J ^a   Kingston, Naomi E ^b   Sayers, Brendan A ^c   Roberts, David L ^d,e   Stout, Jane C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b National Parks and Wildlife Service Ireland   (Ireland)

^c National Botanic Gardens   (Ireland)

^d ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extinction risk; Habitat conservation; Ireland; Orchidaceae; Rarefaction; Rarity; Sighting rate

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MONOCOTYLEDON; POPULATION DECLINE; RARITY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; IRELAND; METHODOLOGY; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; IRELAND; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORCHIDACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

CEPHALANTHERA LONGIFOLIA; MALAXIS PALUDOSA; NEOTINEA MACULATA; ORCHIDACEAE; PSEUDORCHIS ALBIDA;

EID: 58249101113     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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