Setting Realistic Recovery Targets for Two Interacting Endangered Species, Sea Otter and Northern Abalone

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1016-1025

  Chadès, Iadine ^a   Curtis, Janelle M R ^b   Martin, Tara G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Enhydra lutris; Haliotis kamtschatkana; Predator prey relations; Reinforcement learning; Species interaction; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EXTINCTION RISK; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEARNING; MARINE MAMMAL; MUSTELID; NUMERICAL METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE USE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SNAIL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; CARNIVORA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GASTROPOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GASTROPODA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTTERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

CARNIVORA; ENHYDRA; ENHYDRA LUTRIS; ENHYDRA LUTRIS KENYONI; HALIOTIDAE; HALIOTIS KAMTSCHATKANA;

EID: 84868634499     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01951.x     Document Type: Article

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