Scott Ferson
Applied Biomathematics
100 North Country Road
Setauket, NY 11733, USA
Mark Burgman
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia
Cover illustration: See Figure 7.1, page 98.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quantitative methods for conservation biology / edited by Scott
Ferson, Mark Burgman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-387-94322-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Conservation biology—Statistical methods. 2. Conservation biology
—Mathematical models. I. Ferson, S. II. Burgman, Mark A.
QH75.Q36 2000
333.95′16′0151—dc21
99-36218
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2000 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
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Applied Biomathematics
100 North Country Road
Setauket, NY 11733, USA
Mark Burgman
School of Botany
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia
Cover illustration: See Figure 7.1, page 98.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Quantitative methods for conservation biology / edited by Scott
Ferson, Mark Burgman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-387-94322-6 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Conservation biology—Statistical methods. 2. Conservation biology
—Mathematical models. I. Ferson, S. II. Burgman, Mark A.
QH75.Q36 2000
333.95′16′0151—dc21
99-36218
Printed on acid-free paper.
2000 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written
permission of the publisher (Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010,
USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection
with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by
similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden.
The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, etc., in this publication, even if the
former are not especially identified, is not to be taken as a sign that such names, as understood by the
Trade Marks and Merchandise Marks Act, may accordingly be used freely by anyone.
Production coordinated by Princeton Editorial Associates, Inc., and managed by Francine McNeill;
manufacturing supervised by Jerome Basma.
Typeset by Princeton Editorial Associates, Inc., Roosevelt, NJ, and Scottsdale, AZ.
Printed and bound by Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, York, PA.
Printed in the United States of America.
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ISBN 0-387-94322-6 Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg SPIN 10425236