A quantitative approach to Endangered Species Act classification of long-lived vertebrates: application to the North Pacific humpback whale
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Issues discussed concern the classification of endangered and threatened animals under the US Endangered Species Act, focusing on the status of the North Pacific humpback whale. Classification based on population size and variability of population growth rates reveal the threshold for downgrading or upgrading a species from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, and the recommendations for the humpback whale are detailed.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 1999
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Optimal schemes to detect the presence of insect species
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A model that describes the abundance of a single, discrete generation of adult insects is used. Detection schemes have been provided for species whose death rate and variation in emergence time within and between years can at present be characterized only as small, moderate, or large.
Publication Name: Conservation Biology
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0888-8892
Year: 2003
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