Adapting to changing poaching intensity of yellow-shouldered parrot (Amazona barbadensis) nestlings in Margarita Island, Venezuela

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1188-1193

  Briceño Linares, José Manuel ^a   Rodríguez, Jon Paul ^a,b   Rodríguez Clark, Kathryn M ^b   Rojas Suárez, Franklin ^a   Millán, Pablo Antonio ^a   Vittori, Eleonora G ^a   Carrasco Muñoz, Mar ^a  

^a Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas ^*  (Venezuela)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Artificial nests; Assisted breeding; Foster nests; Parrots; Poaching; Threatened species; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BIRD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NESTLING; POACHING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SPECIES CONSERVATION; VULNERABILITY;

MARGARITA ISLAND; NUEVA ESPARTA; VENEZUELA;

AGONIDAE; AMAZONA BARBADENSIS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 79952621313     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.12.010     Document Type: Article

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