Drivers and hotspots of extinction risk in marine mammals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3395-3400

  Davidson, Ana D ^a,b   Boyer, Alison G ^c   Kim, Hwahwan ^d   Pompa Mansilla, Sandra ^a   Hamilton, Marcus J ^b,e   Costa, Daniel P ^f   Ceballos, Gerardo ^a   Brown, James H ^b,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List; Life history; Random forest models; Threatened and endangered species

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; MACHINE LEARNING; MARINE MAMMAL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEA; SEASHORE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BODY WEIGHT; CETACEA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION TREES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHERIES; FORECASTING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LITTER SIZE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OTTERS; PINNIPEDIA; REPRODUCTION; RISK; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URSIDAE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863256754     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121469109     Document Type: Article

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