New model more accurately describes migratory animals' extinction risk
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 17:10
in Biology & Nature
Predicting the risk of extinction is a complicated task, especially for species that migrate between breeding and wintering sites. Researchers at the University of Georgia and Tulane University have developed a mathematical model that may make such predictions more accurate. Their work appears in the early online edition of the Royal Society journal Biology Letters...