Dutch Sedge Warblers Acrocephalus schoenobaenus and West-African rainfall: Empirical data and simulation modelling show low population resilience in fragmented marshlands

Ardea

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-127

  Foppen, Ruud ^a   Ter Braak, Cajo J F ^a   Verboom, Jana ^a   Reijnen, Rien ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus schoenobaenus; Habitat fragmentation; Metapopulations; Reedbeds; Sahelian droughts; Spatially explicit population dynamic modelling

Indexed keywords

MARSH; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; RAINFALL;

ACROCEPHALUS SCHOENOBAENUS;

EID: 0032716481     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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