Fluctuating asymmetry as an early warning system in the critically endangered Taita Thrush

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 479-487

  Lens, Luc ^a,b   Van Dongen, Stefan ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; PASSERINE;

AVES; PASSERIFORMES; TURDIDAE; TURDUS;

EID: 0036226920     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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