Quantifying stochastic and deterministic threats to island seabirds: Last endemic prions face extinction from falcon peregrinations

Animal Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-253

  Jiguet, Frédéric ^a   Robert, A ^a   Micol, T ^b   Barbraud, C ^b,c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c TECHNOPÔLE BREST IROISE   (France)

Author keywords

Catastrophic survival; Extinction risk; Population model; Predator vagrancy; Rat eradication; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; RODENT; SEABIRD;

FALCONIDAE; MAMMALIA; PACHYPTILA; RATTUS;

EID: 34247853227     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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