Quasi-extinction risk and population targets for the Eastern, migratory population of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Semmens, Brice X ^a   Semmens, Darius J ^b   Thogmartin, Wayne E ^c   Wiederholt, Ruscena ^d   López Hoffman, Laura ^d   Diffendorfer, Jay E ^b   Pleasants, John M ^e   Oberhauser, Karen S ^f   Taylor, Orley R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BUTTERFLY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; RISK; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BUTTERFLIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK;

EID: 84961797567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23265     Document Type: Article

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