A web app for population viability and harvesting analyses

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Getz, Wayne M ^a,b,c   Muellerklein, Oliver C ^a   Salter, Richard M ^c,d   Carlson, Colin J ^a   Lyons, Andrew J ^a   Seidel, Dana P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c EMT Associates   (United States)

^d OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leslie matrix model; metapopulation movement; PVA analysis; rhino demography; species conservation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; LESLIE MATRIX MODEL; METAPOPULATION MOVEMENT; METAPOPULATIONS; POPULATION VIABILITY; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSE ANALYSE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RHINO DEMOGRAPHY; SPECIES CONSERVATIONS; WEB APP;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 85006282750     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nrm.12120     Document Type: Article

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