Management-induced reproductive failure and breeding dispersal in double-crested cormorants on Lake Champlain

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2565-2574

  Duerr, Adam E ^a,b   Donovan, Therese M ^a   Capen, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding dispersal; Double crested cormorant; Egg oiling; Egg predation; Lake champlain; Mark recapture analysis; Multistrata modeling; New York; Phalacrocorax auritus; Vermont

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EGG PREDATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SEABIRD; VEGETABLE OIL;

LAKE CHAMPLAIN; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VERMONT;

LARUS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 48249089251     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-527     Document Type: Article

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