Use of time-activity budgets to measure early progress of a social attraction restoration project

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 620-626

  Kappes, Peter J ^a,d   McChesney, Gerard J ^a   Parker, Michael W ^a,e   Carter, Harry R ^b,f   Kress, Stephen W ^c   Golightly, Richard T ^b  

^a San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Complex   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LA RÉUNION   (France)

^e 39913 Sharon Avenue ^*  (United States)

^f Carter Biological Consulting   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common murre; Restoration; Social attraction; Social environment; Time activity budgets; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BREEDING SEASON; COLONY; DISTURBANCE; HABITAT RESTORATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WATERFOWL;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; URIA AALGE;

EID: 78751582249     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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