Diagnosing declining grassland wader populations using simple matrix models

Animal Biology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-144

  Klok, Chris ^a   Roodbergen, Maja ^a,b   Hemerik, Lia ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation; Elasticity; Farmland birds; Incomplete demographic data; Population dynamics; Viability analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ELASTICITY; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; WADER;

WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; LIMOSA LIMOSA;

EID: 72449167112     PISSN: 15707555     EISSN: 15707563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157075609X417143     Document Type: Article

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