Unexpected Demography in the Recovery of an Endangered Primate Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Strier, Karen B ^a   Ives, Anthony R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; FERTILITY; GROWTH RATE; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION SIZE; PRIMATE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO;

ANIMALS; BIRTH RATE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMATES; SEX RATIO;

BRACHYTELES ARACHNOIDES; PRIMATES;

EID: 84866452614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044407     Document Type: Article

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