Distributions of habitat suitability and the abundance-occupancy relationship

American Naturalist

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 260-275

  Freckleton, Robert P ^a   Noble, David ^b   Webb, Thomas J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Habitat association; Metapopulation; Phylogeny; Population viability

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; HABITAT QUALITY; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY;

AVES;

EID: 33144487680     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498655     Document Type: Article

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