Adult survival of tropical roseate terns breeding on Aride Island, Seychelles, western Indian Ocean

Waterbirds

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 330-337

  Monticelli, David ^a,b   Ramos, Jaime A ^c   Guerreiro Milheiras, Sergio A ^d   Doucet, Jean Louis ^b  

^a ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d NONE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Dipole mode index; Seabird demography; Sterna dougallii; Survival rate; Western Indian Ocean

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREEDING POPULATION; CAPTURE METHOD; CLUTCH SIZE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA SET; FECUNDITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ARIDE ISLAND; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (WEST); INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SEYCHELLES;

STERNA DOUGALLII;

EID: 52249087664     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695-31.3.330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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