Investigating the viability of squirrel populations; a modeling approach for the island of lesvos, Greece

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 423-444

  Matsinos, Yiannis G ^a   Papadopoulou, Eleni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

Author keywords

Extinction risk; Metapopulation; Population viability analysis; Squirrel

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010278181     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2004.tb00144.x     Document Type: Article

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