Combining demographic and count-based approaches to identify source-sink dynamics of a threatened seabird

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1516-1528

  Peery, M Zachariah ^a,c   Becker, Benjamin H ^b   Beissinger, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Point Reyes National Seashore   (United States)

^c MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachyramphus marmoratus; Central California; Demography; Emigration; Immigration; Marbled Murrelets; Mark recapture; Rate of population change; Source sink theory

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CONSERVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EMIGRATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; IMMIGRATION; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RECRUITMENT; SEABIRD; SURVEY;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BRACHYRAMPHUS; BRACHYRAMPHUS MARMORATUS;

EID: 33645109666     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1516:CDACAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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