Landcover characterizations and Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) population dynamics

Biological Conservation

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-181

  Breininger, David R ^a,b   Toland, Brian ^c   Oddy, Donna M ^a   Legare, Michael L ^d  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Toland Environmental Consulting   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Demography; Dispersal; Fire; Fragmentation; Mapping

Indexed keywords

FIRE; FRAGMENTATION; LAND COVER; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS;

EID: 29244467406     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.09.026     Document Type: Article

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