Long-term trends in survival of a declining population: The case of the little owl (Athene noctua) in the Netherlands

Oecologia

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 369-379

  Le Gouar, Pascaline J ^a,d   Schekkerman, Hans ^a,b   van der Jeugd, Henk P ^a   Boele, Arjan ^b   van Harxen, Ronald ^c   Fuchs, Piet ^c   Stroeken, Pascal ^c   van Noordwijk, Arie J ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b SOVON Dutch Center for Field Ornithology   (Netherlands)

^c STONE ^*  (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Conservation; Demography; Multistate capture recapture; Ringing data; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; RAPTOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NETHERLANDS; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRIGIFORMES;

EUROPE;

ATHENE NOCTUA; MURIDAE; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 79956016671     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1868-x     Document Type: Article

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