Evaluating an icon of population persistence: The Devil’s Hole pupfish

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1794, 2014, Pages

  Michael Reed, J ^a   Stockwell, Craig A ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyprinodon diabolis; Effective population size; Endangered species; Extinction; Minimum viable population size; Small population paradigm

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EXTINCTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LAKE; MINIMUM VIABLE POPULATION; PARADIGM SHIFT; PERSISTENCE; PLEISTOCENE; TELEOST; TIME SERIES; VULNERABILITY;

CYPRINODON DIABOLIS;

EID: 84908125587     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.1648     Document Type: Article

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