Habitat-specific breeder survival of Florida Scrub-Jays: Inferences from multistate models

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3180-3189

  Breininger, David R ^a,b   Nichols, James D ^c   Carter, Geoffrey M ^a   Oddy, Donna M ^a  

^a DYNAMAC CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphelocoma coerulescens; Capture recapture; Disturbance; Fire; Florida Scrub Jay; Multistate models; Patch dynamics; Restoration; Scrub; Survival

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FIRE; FITNESS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; METAPOPULATION; PASSERINE; PATCH DYNAMICS; POPULATION DECLINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SCRUB; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES;

EID: 72449153937     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1123.1     Document Type: Article

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