Modelling the responses of wildlife to human disturbance: An evaluation of alternative management scenarios for black-crowned night-herons

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2770-2779

  Bennett, Victoria J ^a   Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^b   Zollner, Patrick A ^c   Beard, Matthew J ^c   Westphal, Lynne ^d   Fisher, Cherie L LeBlanc ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic disturbance; Individual based model; Nycticorax nycticorax; Recreation; Simulation modelling; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX; RECREATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY;

DECISION MAKING;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COLONY STRUCTURE; DECISION MAKING; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; NESTLING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WADER; WILD POPULATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AVES; NYCTICORAX NYCTICORAX;

EID: 79959667546     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.04.025     Document Type: Article

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