River bed restoration boosts habitat mosaics and the demography of two rare non-aquatic vertebrates

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2126-2132

  Arlettaz, Raphaël ^a,b   Lugon, Alain ^c   Sierro, Antoine ^b   Werner, Philippe ^c   Kéry, Marc ^b   Oggier, Pierre Alain ^d  

^a Zoological Institute   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c L'Azuré Etudes en Écologie Appliquée ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actitis hypoleucos; Bird conservation; Charadrius dubius; Closed population estimation; Gravel exploitation; Probability of detection; River ecosystem dynamics; WinBUGS

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BRAIDED RIVER; DEMOGRAPHY; FLOOD; GRAVEL; HABITAT MOSAIC; HABITAT RESTORATION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; RARE SPECIES; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIVER BED; TERRITORY; WADER;

RHONE RIVER; SWITZERLAND;

ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS; AVES; CHARADRIUS DUBIUS; SCOLOPACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958082770     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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