Temporal variation in the vital rates of an insular population of spotted owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis): Contrasting effects of weather

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1056-1069

  LaHaye, William S ^a,b   Zimmerman, Guthrie S ^a   Gutierrez R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FECUNDITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 7644235337     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090475     Document Type: Article

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