Using age ratios to infer survival and despotic breeding dispersal in hybridizing warblers

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 423-431

  Rohwer, Sievert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Age ratios; Aggressive hybridization; Breeding dispersal; Dendroica occidentalis; Dendroica townsendi; Emigration; Geographic variation; Hermit Warbler; Neotropical migratory birds; Recapture methods; Survival; Townsend's Warbler

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; EMIGRATION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; PASSERINE; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; DENDROICA; DENDROICA OCCIDENTALIS; DENDROICA TOWNSENDI; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 1542319224     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0380     Document Type: Article

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