Potential biological removal of albatrosses and petrels with minimal demographic information

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1885-1894

  Dillingham, Peter W ^a,b   Fletcher, David ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bycatch; Matrix model; Population growth; Procellariiformes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE CLASS; BYCATCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; JUVENILE; LONGLINING; PAIR BOND; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEABIRD; SUBSPECIES; SURVIVAL;

NEW ZEALAND;

AVES; DIOMEDEIDAE; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 79957638687     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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