Survival in a long-lived territorial migrant: Effects of life-history traits and ecological conditions in wintering and breeding areas

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 580-590

  Grande, Juan M ^a   Serrano, David ^b   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^c   Carrete, Martina ^b   Ceballos, Olga ^b   Díaz Delgado, Ricardo ^b   Tella, José L ^b   Donázar, José A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY CONDITION; BREEDING SITE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LIFESTYLE; LIMITING FACTOR; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MORTALITY; NDVI; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAPTOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL;

AVES; NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS;

EID: 63849236065     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.17218.x     Document Type: Article

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