The role of species abundance in determining breeding origins of migratory birds with stable isotopes

Ecological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1780-1788

  Royle, J Andrew ^a   Rubenstein, Dustin R ^b  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes Rule; Black throated Blue Warbler; Breeding origins; Connectivity; Dendroica caerulescens; Likelihood assignment; Migratory birds; Relative abundance; Species abundance; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CONNECTIVITY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PASSERINE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AVES; DENDROICA; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; PASSERI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 11144267167     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0175     Document Type: Article

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