The consequences of being colonial: Allee effects in metapopulations of seabirds

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3061-3070

  Schippers, Peter ^a   Stienen, Eric W M ^b   Schotman, Alex G M ^a   Snep, Robbert P H ^a   Slim, Pieter A ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Alternative stable states; Colonial seabirds,Critical thresholds; Metapopulation; Recolonization thresholds

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECTS; ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATE; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; METAPOPULATIONS; RE-COLONIZATION;

FORESTRY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALLEE EFFECT; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BREEDING POPULATION; CAPTIVITY; COLONIAL ORGANISM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION GROWTH; RECOLONIZATION; SEABIRD; SEX RATIO;

AVES; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 80051947330     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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