Trade-offs between specificity and regional generality in habitat association models: A case study of two species of African vulture

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 852-860

  Bamford, Andrew J ^a   Monadjem, Ara ^b   Anderson, Mark D ^c   Anthony, Angus ^d   Borello, Wendy D ^e   Bridgeford, Marilyn ^f   Bridgeford, Peter ^f   Hancock, Pete ^g   Howells, Bill ^h   Wakelin, James ^h   Hardy, Ian C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SWAZILAND   (Swaziland)

^c BirdLife South Africa   (South Africa)

^d Environment and Conservation   (South Africa)

^e Box 3699 ^*  (Botswana)

^f Box 3699   (Namibia)

^g BirdLife Botswana   (Botswana)

^h EZEMVELO KZN WILDLIFE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African vultures; Conservation; Information theoretic modelling; Logistic analysis; Nest site selection; Nest success; Specificity generality trade off

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GENERALIST; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; HABITAT USE; NEST SITE; NESTING SUCCESS; RAPTOR; SITE SELECTION; SPECIALIST; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF;

AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

AEGYPIUS; EQUUS ASINUS; GYPS AFRICANUS; TORGOS TRACHELIOTUS;

EID: 67649908294     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01669.x     Document Type: Article

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