Rainfall in arid zones: Possible effects of climate change on the population ecology of blue cranes

Functional Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1014-1021

  Altwegg, Res ^a,b   Anderson, Mark D ^c,d  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c Environment and Conservation ^*  (South Africa)

^d BirdLife South Africa   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Climate forcing; Environmental stochasticity; Leslie matrix; Ring recovery

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RAINFALL; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SEASONALITY; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL;

AFRICA; KAROO; NAMA KAROO; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; GRUIDAE; GRUS; GRUS PARADISEA;

EID: 70349326537     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01563.x     Document Type: Article

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