Quantifying population-level risks using an individual-based model: Sea otters, harlequin ducks, and the exxon valdez oil spill

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 503-522

  Harwell, Mark A ^a   Gentile John H , ^b   Parker, Keith R ^c  

^a Harwell Gentile & Associates LC   (United States)

^b Harwell Gentile and Associates   (United States)

^c Data Analysis Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Exxon valdez oil spill; Individual based models; Population level risks; Sea otters seaducks

Indexed keywords

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; DUCKS AND GEESE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; OIL SPILL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OTTERS; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84867867995     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.1277     Document Type: Article

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