Incipient extinction of a major population of the Hawaii akepa owing to introduced species

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 931-965

  Freed, Leonard A ^a   Cann, Rebecca L ^b   Bodner, Gustav R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Environmental change; Food limitation; Interspecific competition; Introduced species; Population crash

Indexed keywords

AMBLYCERA; AVES; ISCHNOCERA; LOXOPS (BIRD); LOXOPS COCCINEUS COCCINEUS; PHTHIRAPTERA; ZOSTEROPIDAE; ZOSTEROPS JAPONICUS;

EID: 57849160828     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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