Demographic meta-analysis: Synthesizing vital rates for spotted owls

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-49

  Boyce, Mark S ^a   Irwin, Larry L ^b   Barker, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Natl Cncl Air Stream Improvement   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Demography; Dispersal; McMC; Population growth rates; Projection matrices; Strix occidentalis; Survival

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; META-ANALYSIS; POPULATION GROWTH; RAPTOR;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

STRIX OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 14844336951     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2004.00986.x     Document Type: Article

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