Population Viability Analysis

Encyclopedia of Biodiversity: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 210-219

  Possingham, Hugh P ^a   McCarthy, Michael A ^b   Lindenmayer, David B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catastrophe; Decision making; Demographics; Extinction; Genetics; Model; Population; Population projection matrix; Risk; Simulation; Stochasticity; Threatened species; Variability; Viability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929963532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00173-8     Document Type: Chapter

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