Contrasting measures of fitness to classify habitat quality for the black-throated sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 199-210

  Pidgeon, A M ^a   Radeloff, V C ^a   Mathews, N E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Dynamics; Fitness; Lambda; Sink; Source

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FITNESS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY;

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT; NORTH AMERICA;

AMPHISPIZA BILINEATA; AVES; BOUTELOUA ERIOPODA; PROSOPIS;

EID: 33745428065     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.03.024     Document Type: Article

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