Threats to avifauna on oceanic islands

Conservation Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-132

  Trevino, Heather S ^a   Skibiel, Amy L ^a   Karels, Tim J ^b   Dobson, F Stephen ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeography; Causal analysis; Extinction threats; Island geography; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; COLONIZATION; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; ISOLATED POPULATION; POPULATION MODELING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33846946082     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00581.x     Document Type: Article

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