Reexamining the Minimum Viable Population Concept for Long-Lived Species

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 542-551

  Shoemaker, Kevin T ^a,c   Breisch, Alvin R ^b,d   Jaycox, Jesse W ^b   Gibbs, James P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian state space modeling; Capture recapture; Conservation triage; Minimum viable population; Population viability analysis (PVA); Small population paradigm

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONY FOUNDING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; GUIDELINE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TURTLE;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

GLYPTEMYS MUHLENBERGII; TESTUDINES;

EID: 84878153589     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12028     Document Type: Article

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