Use of permanent plots to monitor trends in burrow-nesting seabird populations in British Columbia

Marine Ornithology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-253

  Rodway, Michael S ^a   Lemon, Moira J F ^b  

^a Wildwing Environmental Research   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Burrow counts; Burrowing alcids; Introduced predators; Permanent plots; Population declines

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; BREEDING POPULATION; BURROWING; COLONY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NESTING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; SEABIRD; TREND ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

ALCIDAE; CERORHINCA; CERORHINCA MONOCERATA; FRATERCULA CIRRHATA; PTYCHORAMPHUS ALEUTICUS; SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS; SYNTHLIBORAMPHUS ANTIQUUS;

EID: 84855507586     PISSN: 10183337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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