Incorporating Uncertainty of Management Costs in Sensitivity Analyses of Matrix Population Models

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 134-144

  Salomon, Yacov ^a   McCarthy, Michael A ^a   Taylor, Peter ^a   Wintle, Brendan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Decision theory; Perturbation analysis; Population management; Portfolio theory

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FINANCIAL PROVISION; MARSUPIAL; MATRIX; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERTURBATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION REGULATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TURTLE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COST; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; KOALA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TURTLE; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TURTLES; UNCERTAINTY;

LEPIDOCHELYS OLIVACEA; PHASCOLARCTIDAE; PHASCOLARCTOS CINEREUS;

EID: 84872229967     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12007     Document Type: Article

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