Viability analysis of a threatened amphibian population: Modelling the past, present and future

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 162-169

  Di Minin, Enrico ^a   Griffiths, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTINCTION RISK; HEATHLAND; JUVENILE; POND; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; VIABILITY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO;

EID: 79952435962     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06263.x     Document Type: Article

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