Identifying and Managing Threatened Invertebrates through Assessment of Coextinction Risk

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 787-796

  Moir, Melinda L ^a   Vesk, Peter A ^a   Brennan, Karl E C ^b   Keith, David A ^c   Mccarthy, Michael A ^a   Hughes, Lesley ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION   (Australia)

^c NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Extinction risk; Host breadth; Host specificity; Parasites; Plant insect interactions; Risk assessment; Species loss

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; HERBIVORE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; PLANT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; INVERTEBRATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES EXTINCTION; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; INVERTEBRATES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 79960560617     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01663.x     Document Type: Article

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