Food supplementation: A tool to increase reproductive output? A case study in the threatened Florida Scrub-Jay

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-173

  Schoech, Stephan J ^a   Bridge, Eli S ^a   Boughton, Raoul K ^a,b   Reynolds, S James ^a,c   Atwell, Jonathan W ^d   Bowman, Reed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food supplementation; Reproductive output; Survival

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT LOSS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SURVIVAL;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES;

EID: 36549075015     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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