Among-colony synchrony in the survival of Common Guillemots Uria aalge reflects shared wintering areas

Ibis

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 818-831

  Reynolds, Toby J ^a   Harris, Michael P ^b   King, Ruth ^a   Swann, Robert L ^c   Jardine, David C ^c   Frederiksen, Morten ^d   Wanless, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c Aarhus University ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Common Guillemot; Long term studies; Mark recapture recovery data; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Program MARK; Spatiotemporal variability; Uria aalge

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; COLONY STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEABIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION; WINTER;

ALCIDAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; URIA AALGE;

EID: 80052594359     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01149.x     Document Type: Article

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