Accounting for uncertainty in oil and gas development impacts to wildlife in Alaska

Conservation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 350-358

  Wilson, Ryan R ^a,c   Liebezeit, Joseph R ^b   Loya, Wendy M ^a  

^a Wilderness Society   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribou; Cumulative effects; Development; Environmental assessment; Environmental impact statement; Monte Carlo Simulation; National Petroleum Reserve Alaska; Passerine

Indexed keywords

PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84885462207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12016     Document Type: Article

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