Natural population die-offs: Causes and consequences for terrestrial mammals

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 272-277

  Ameca y Juárez, Eric I ^a,b   Mace, Georgina M ^b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^a   Pettorelli, Nathalie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VULNERABILITY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISASTERS; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84859962602     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.11.005     Document Type: Review

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