Accelerating population decline of Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 153, Issue , 2012, Pages 192-200

  Mei, Zhigang ^a,b   Huang, Shiang Lin ^a,d   Hao, Yujiang ^a   Turvey, Samuel T ^c   Gong, Weiming ^a   Wang, Ding ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Critically endangered; Demography; Extinction; Leslie matrix model; Life tables; Population viability analysis

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; GENETIC VARIATION; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; LIFE TABLE; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PORPOISE; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

CETACEA; LIPOTES VEXILLIFER; NEOPHOCAENA; NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84862735563     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.04.029     Document Type: Article

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