Immigration stabilizes a population of threatened cavity-nesting raptors despite possibility of nest box imprinting

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-148

  Brown, Jessi L ^a   Collopy, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FLEDGING; IMMIGRATION; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NEST BOX; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAPTOR; STABILIZATION;

AVES; FALCO SPARVERIUS; FALCO SPARVERIUS PAULUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 84874538464     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2012.05728.x     Document Type: Article

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