Using integrated population modelling to quantify the implications of multiple threatening processes for a rapidly declining population

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1081-1088

  Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a   Ng, Chooi Fei ^a   de Villiers, Deidré L ^b   Preece, Harriet J ^b   McAlpine, Clive A ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Integrated population model; Koala; Matrix population model; Multiple threats; Recovery strategies

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MARSUPIAL; MATRIX; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 79951812240     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.12.027     Document Type: Article

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