Inbreeding in red-cockaded woodpeckers: Effects of natal dispersal distance and territory location

Biological Conservation

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 544-552

  Schiegg, Karin ^a,b   Daniels, Susan J ^a   Walters, Jeffrey R ^a   Priddy, Jeffery A ^c   Pasinelli, Gilberto ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inbreeding depression; Individual based; Modelling; Picoides borealis; Spatially explicit

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; EXTINCTION RISK; INBREEDING AVOIDANCE; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; NATAL DISPERSAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PASSERINE;

PICOIDES BOREALIS;

EID: 33745159618     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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