Modeling the viability of the free-ranging cheetah population in Namibia: An object-oriented Bayesian network approach

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Sandra ^a   Marker, Laurie ^b   Mengersen, Kerrie ^a   Gordon, Chris H ^b,e   Melzheimer, Jörg ^c   Schmidt Küntzel, Anne ^b   Nghikembua, Matti ^b   Fabiano, Ezequiel ^b   Henghali, Josephine ^d   Wachter, Bettina ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND   (Namibia)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Ministry of Environment and Tourism   (Namibia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acinonyx jubatus; Carnivore conservation; IBNDC; Integrated modeling; Namibia; Object oriented Bayesian network (OOBN); Parallel modeling; Population viability; Predator conservation; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900464623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES12-00357.1     Document Type: Article

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