Demographic mechanism of a historical bird population collapse reconstructed using museum specimens

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1649, 2008, Pages 2381-2387

  Green, Rhys E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age structure; Agriculture; Corncrake; Demographic rate; Population model

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HARVESTING; HAY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MUSEUM; POPULATION DECLINE; RECONSTRUCTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TYPE SPECIMEN; YOUNG POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CORN CAKE; CREX CREX; DEMOGRAPHY; FEATHER; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION CENTER; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 51449092395     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0473     Document Type: Article

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