Buying years to extinction: Is compensatory mitigation for marine bycatch a sufficient conservation measure for long-lived seabirds?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Igual, José Manuel ^a   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^a   Jenouvrier, Stephanie ^c   Forero, Manuela G ^b   Oro, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; FISHING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE HISTORY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NEST PREDATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISH; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATION; RAT;

CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; RATTUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FISHES; LONGEVITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RATS;

EID: 62849105088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004826     Document Type: Article

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