Variation in age-structured vital rates of a long-lived raptor: Implications for population growth

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 107-115

  Sergio, Fabrizio ^a   Tavecchia, Giacomo ^b   Blas, Julio ^a   López, Lidia ^a   Tanferna, Alessandro ^a,c   Hiraldo, Fernando ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Demography; Elasticity; Matrix population models; Milvus migrans; Population dynamics; Sensitivity; Survival

Indexed keywords

AVES; MILVUS; MILVUS MIGRANS; RAPTORES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952700158     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2010.11.004     Document Type: Article

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