Effects of individual heterogeneity in estimating the persistence of small populations

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 109-127

  Conner, Mary M ^a   White, Gary C ^a  

^a Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual heterogeneity; Persistence of small populations; Population dynamics; Population models; Population viability analysis; Simulation models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859213810     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.1999.tb00005.x     Document Type: Article

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