Joint effects of inverse density-dependence and extreme environmental variation on the viability of a social bird species

Ecoscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-215

  Doxa, Aggeliki ^a,b,c   Theodorou, Konstantinos ^b   Hatzilacou, Dionyssia ^d   Crivelli, Alain ^c   Robert, Alexandre ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^d National Center for the Environment and Sustainable Development   (Greece)

Author keywords

Allee effect; capture recapture; carrying capacity; catastrophes; population size; threatened species

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIRD; CARRYING CAPACITY; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EXTINCTION RISK; JUVENILE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL;

AMVRAKIKOS GULF; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

AVES;

EID: 77954393141     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/17-2-3304     Document Type: Article

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