A fledgling-mass threshold greatly affects juvenile survival in the Hawaii Akepa (loxops coccineus coccineus)

Auk

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 319-325

  Medeirs, Matthew C ^a,b   Freed, Leonard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Fledgling quality; Hawaii Akepa; Juvenile survival; Life history; Loxops coccineus; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

FLEDGING; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY; NESTLING; PASSERINE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL;

AVES; DREPANIDINAE; LOXOPS (BIRD); LOXOPS COCCINEUS; LOXOPS COCCINEUS COCCINEUS;

EID: 67650251485     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2009.08013     Document Type: Article

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