Testing a spatially explicit, individual-based model of red-cockaded woodpecker population dynamics

Ecological Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1495-1503

  Schiegg, Karin ^a,c   Walters, Jeffrey R ^a   Priddy, Jeffery A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extinction risk; Management scenarios; Picoides borealis; Pioneering; Population modeling; PVA, Red cockaded Woodpecker; Spatially explicit individual based model; Stochasticity; Territory budding; Validation

Indexed keywords

EXTINCTION RISK; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

PICOIDES BOREALIS;

EID: 26044460164     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-1473     Document Type: Article

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