Confounding Environmental Colour and Distribution Shape Leads to Underestimation of Population Extinction Risk

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Fowler, Mike S ^a,b,d   Ruokolainen, Lasse ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK;

EID: 84873736136     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055855     Document Type: Article

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