Modelling distributional trends to inform conservation strategies for an endangered species

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 182-189

  Wilson, Conor D ^a   Roberts, Dai ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ArcGIS; Captive breeding; Conservation biogeography; Logistic regression; Species decline; Species distribution

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIVALVE; CAPTIVE BREEDING; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; FIELDWORK; GIS; POPULATION GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

MARGARITIFERA MARGARITIFERA;

EID: 78650023642     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00723.x     Document Type: Article

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