Annual variation in survival and breeding probability in greater flamingos

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1143-1150

  Cézilly, Frank ^a   Viallefont, Anne ^b   Boy, Vincent ^a   Johnson, Alan R ^a  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Accession to reproduction; Adult mortality; Age specific breeding probabilities; Capture recapture; Cost of reproduction; Greater flamingo; Phoenicopterus ruber roseus; Re mating; Survival; Weather effects

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BREEDING PROBABILITY; GREATER FLAMINGO; SURVIVAL;

FRANCE, CAMARGUE;

PHOENICOPTERUS RUBER ROSEUS;

EID: 0030390673     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265583     Document Type: Article

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