Living close, doing differently: Small-scale asynchrony in demography of two species of seabirds

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-85

  Tavecchia, Giacomo ^a,b   Minguez, Eduardo ^c   De León, Ana ^d   Louzao, Maite ^a   Oro, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult survival analysis; Balearic shearwater; Capture recapture; Demography; European Storm Petrel; Hydrobates pelagicus; Population synchrony; Procellariiformes; Puffinus mauretanicus; Seabirds

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; AGE STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROUP SIZE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PREDICTION; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; HYDROBATES PELAGICUS; HYDROBATINAE; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; PUFFINUS MAURETANICUS;

EID: 40449141228     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0326.1     Document Type: Article

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