Incorporating ecological drivers and uncertainty into a demographic population viability analysis for the island fox

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 77-108

  Bakker, Victoria J ^a   Doak, Daniel F ^b   Roemer, Gary W ^c   Garcelon, David K ^d   Coonan, Timothy J ^e   Morrison, Scott A ^f   Lynch, Colleen ^g   Ralls, Katherine ^h   Shaw, Rebecca ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE STUDIES   (United States)

^e NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^f THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^h SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquila chrysaetos; Density dependence; Ecological drivers; Golden Eagle; Island fox; Mark recapture; Population viability analysis, PVA; Process variance; Stochasticity; Uncertainty; Urocyon littoralis.

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRY; CANID; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDATION RISK; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AQUILA; AQUILA CHRYSAETOS; UROCYON LITTORALIS;

EID: 65349122419     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0817.1     Document Type: Article

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