Does supplemental feeding affect the viability of translocated populations? The example of the hihi

Animal Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 337-350

  Chauvenet, A L M ^a,b   Ewen, J G ^a   Armstrong, D P ^c   Coulson, T ^b   Blackburn, T M ^a,d   Adams, L ^e   Walker, L K ^a,f   Pettorelli, N ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Management; Notiomystis cincta; Population modelling; Stitchbird; Translocation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION;

NEW ZEALAND;

NOTIOMYSTIS CINCTA;

EID: 84864011929     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00522.x     Document Type: Article

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