Quantitative Methods for Conservation Biology

Detecting extinctions in sighting data; extinctions in sighting data: power and an application to Western Australian Acacia species; identifying the ecological correlates of extinction - prone species using maximum likelihood regression: a case study of New Zealand birds; quantitative methods for modelling species habitat - comparative performance and an application to Australian plants; risk assessment of a proposed introduction of Pacific salmon in the Delaware River Basin; likelihood of introducing non-indigenous organisms with agricultural commodities - probabilistic estimation; best abundance estimates and best management - why they are not the same; whaling models for Cetacean conservation; Bayesian belief networks - assessing land use impacts on bull trout. (Part contents)