The consistency and stability of abundance-occupancy relationships in large-scale population dynamics

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 172-181

  Zuckerberg, Benjamin ^a   Porter, William F ^a   Corwin, Kimberley ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird guilds; Breeding bird atlas; Breeding bird survey; New York conservation; Population dynamics; Population monitoring; Range change; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; LIFE HISTORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANGE EXPANSION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SONGBIRD; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; ECOSYSTEM; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; PASSERI;

EID: 57549112573     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01463.x     Document Type: Article

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