Individual-based ecology of coastal birds

Biological Reviews

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 413-434

  Stillman, Richard A ^a   Goss Custard, John D ^b  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Havering   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conflict resolution; environmental change; fitness; individual based models; predictive models; shorebirds

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY CONSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AVES; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS;

EID: 77954596828     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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