Modeling temporal and spatial colony-site dynamics in a long-lived seabird

Population Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-139

  Martínez Abraín, Alejandro ^a,b   Oro, Daniel ^a   Forero, Manuela G ^a   Conesa, David ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b CPEMN   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Audouin's gull; Colony site dynamics columbretes; GLMM model; Nomadism

Indexed keywords

COLONY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; SEABIRD;

CASTELLON; COLUMBRETES; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; LARUS; LARUS AUDOUINII; LARUS MICHAHELLIS; VALENCIA;

EID: 0345393796     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-003-0150-z     Document Type: Article

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