Seabird metapopulations: Searching for alternative breeding habitats

Population Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 459-470

  Schippers, Peter ^a   Snep, Robbert P H ^a   Schotman, Alex G M ^a   Jochem, René ^a   Stienen, Eric W M ^b   Slim, Pieter A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Colonization; Dispersal; Metapopulation; Scenarios; Species conservation

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FISH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; METAPOPULATION; NICHE OVERLAP; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; RECOLONIZATION; SEABIRD; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; RHINE-MEUSE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE;

STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 70349852662     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-009-0159-z     Document Type: Article

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