Estimating the time to extinction in an island population of song sparrows

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1443, 2000, Pages 621-626

  Sæther, Bernt Erik ^a   Engen, Steinar ^a   Lande, Russell ^b   Arcese, Peter ^c   Smith, James N M ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental stochasticity; Population viability analysis; Song sparrow; Stochastic population dynamics; Time to extinction

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXTINCTION; PASSERINE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AVES; MELOSPIZA MELODIA; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 2042458706     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1047     Document Type: Article

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