Monitoring behavior: Assessing population status with rapid behavioral assessment

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 86-97

  Wildermuth, Robert P ^a   Anadón, José Daniel ^a   Gerber, Leah R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Conservation behavior; Demography; Population viability analysis; Rapid assessment

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876099932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00298.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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