Demographic Assessment of a Marbled Murrelet Population from Capture-Recapture Data

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1118-1126

  Cam, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Lougheed, Lynn ^a,c   Bradley, Russell ^a,d   Cooke, Fred ^a,e  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c CHARLES DARWIN RESEARCH STATION   (Ecuador)

^d PRBO CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United States)

^e Larkins Cottage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; POPULATION GROWTH; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

BRACHYRAMPHUS; BRACHYRAMPHUS MARMORATUS; CICONIIFORMES;

EID: 0345017602     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01287.x     Document Type: Article

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