Managing Risk and Increasing the Robustness of Invasive Species Eradication Programs

Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 485-493

  Spring, Daniel ^a,b   Kompas, Tom ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eradication; Invasive species; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011405123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20502680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/app5.105     Document Type: Article

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