The decline of the grey partridge in Europe: Comparing demographies in traditional and modern agricultural landscapes

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 177, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 313-335

  De Leo, Giulio A ^a,e   Focardi, Stefano ^b   Gatto, Marino ^c   Cattadori, Isabella M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Agenzia Regionale Per La Protez D   (Italy)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Dispersal; Extinction risk; Harvesting; Perdix perdix; Population viability analysis; Stochastic demographic models

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY;

PERDIX; PERDIX PERDIX;

EID: 3042808676     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.11.017     Document Type: Article

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