Acting fast helps avoid extinction

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 274-280

  Martin, Tara G ^a,g   Nally, Simon ^b   Burbidge, Andrew A ^b   Arnall, Sophie ^c   Garnett, Stephen T ^d   Hayward, Matt W ^e,h   Lumsden, Linda F ^f   Menkhorst, Peter ^f   Mcdonald Madden, Eve ^a,g   Possingham, Hugh P ^g  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Population and Communities ^*  (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY   (Australia)

^f ARTHUR RYLAH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^h NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Captive breeding; Christmas Island Pipistrelle; Endangered species; Governance; Leadership; Monitoring; Orange bellied Parrot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863629654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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