Variability in Population Abundance and the Classification of Extinction Risk

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 747-757

  Wilson, Howard B ^a   Kendall, Bruce E ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Declinaci n poblacional; IUCN; Lista roja; Modelo estado espacio; Population decline; Red list; Series de tiempo; State space model; Time series; Variabilidad; Variability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION DECLINE; RED LIST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 79960557816     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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