Maximizing re-introduction success: Assessing the immediate cost of release in a threatened waterfowl

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3005-3012

  Tavecchia, Giacomo ^a   Viedma, Covadonga ^b,c   Martínez Abraín, Alejandro ^a   Bartolomé, Miguel Angel ^b   Gómez, Juan Antonio ^b   Oro, Daniel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b CRF La Granja de El Saler   (Spain)

^c Ministerio de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coots; Fulica cristata; Monthly survival; Translocations

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORTALITY; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; REINTRODUCTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION; WATERFOWL;

ANATIDAE; AVES; FULICA CRISTATA; RALLIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 70449099310     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.07.035     Document Type: Article

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