Active adaptive conservation of threatened species in the face of uncertainty

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1476-1489

  Mcdonald Madden, E V E ^a,f   Probert, William J M ^a   Hauser, Cindy E ^b   Runge, Michael C ^c   Possingham, Hugh P ^a   Jones, Menna E ^d,e   Moore, Joslin L ^b   Rout, Tracy M ^b   Vesk, Peter A ^b   Wintle, Brendan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Active adaptive management; Australia; Bayesian updating; Decision theory; Learning; Markov decision process; Sarcophilus harrisii; Stochastic dynamic programming; Tasmania; Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARKOV CHAIN; MARSUPIAL; NATURAL RESOURCE; POPULATION GROWTH; STOCHASTICITY; TUMOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; UNCERTAINTY;

AUSTRALIA;

SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 77954330844     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0647.1     Document Type: Article

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