Current dynamics and predicted vulnerability to sea-level rise of a threatened Bittern Botaurus stellaris population

Ibis

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 580-589

  Gilbert, Gillian ^a   Brown, Andrew F ^b   Wotton, Simon R ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Population viability; Salinity; Suffolk coast.

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; VULNERABILITY; WADER;

ENGLAND; SUFFOLK; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BOTAURUS STELLARIS;

EID: 77954855611     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01022.x     Document Type: Article

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