Small populations and offspring sex-ratio deviations in eagles

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1017-1025

  Ferrer, Miguel ^a   Newton, Ian ^b   Pandolfi, Massimo ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

guila Imperial Espa ola; Declinaci n poblacional; Edad de reproducci n; Proporci n de sexos de la poblaci n; Proporci n de sexos sesgada; Viabilidad poblacional

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; EXTINCTION; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT QUALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION SIZE; RAPTOR; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STOCHASTICITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; EAGLE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; EAGLES; FEMALE; MALE; SEX RATIO; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

ACCIPITRIDAE; AQUILA ADALBERTI; AQUILA HELIACA ADALBERTI; AVES;

EID: 67650409984     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01215.x     Document Type: Article

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