Winter habitat quality, population limitation, and conservation of neotropical-nearctic migrant birds

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-48

  Sherry, Thomas W ^a   Holmes, Richard T ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendroica caerulescens; Despotism; Dispersal; Habitat specific demography; Intra specific competition; Migratory birds; Neotropics; Seasonality; Setophaga ruticilla; Winter territoriality

Indexed keywords

AVES; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; NEARCTIC; PASSERI; SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA; PASSERIFORMES;

CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MIGRATORY BIRD; POPULATION LIMITATION; WINTER;

JAMAICA;

EID: 0030417218     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265652     Document Type: Article

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