Sensitivity of lake sturgeon population dynamics and genetics to demographic parameters

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 521-534

  Schueller, Amy M ^a,b   Hayes, Daniel B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; ALLELE; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; INBREEDING; MORTALITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TELEOST; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACIPENSER FULVESCENS;

EID: 79551670854     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-035.1     Document Type: Article

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