When good animals love bad habitats: Ecological traps and the conservation of animal populations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1482-1491

  Battin, James ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological trap; Habitat quality; Habitat selection; Population dynamics; Source sink system

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 10644265389     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00417.x     Document Type: Review

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