Quantitative Conservation Biology
Subtitle: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis
Publisher: Sinauer Associates
Published: June 22, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780878935468
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Mathematical models; Environmental Studies; Science; System Theory; Science/Mathematics; Population viability analysis; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Ecology; Conservation biology
First sentence: Broadly defined, population viability analysis (PVA) is the use of quantitative methods to predict the likely future status of a population or collection of populations of conservation concern.