Small and large wetland fragments are equally suited breeding sites for a ground-nesting passerine

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 703-714

  Pasinelli, Gilberto ^a,b   Mayer, Christian ^a   Gouskov, Alexandre ^a   Schiegg, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Akaike's information criterion; Avian reproductive performance; Fragmentation; Recruitment probability; Spatially structured populations

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BREEDING SITE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FLEDGING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; NESTING; PASSERINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTION; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY CONSTITUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; WETLANDS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

AVES; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 43349105868     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1013-2     Document Type: Article

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