From local monitoring to a broad-scale viability assessment: A case study for the Bonelli's Eagle in western Europe

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 239-261

  Hernández Matías, Antonio ^a   Real, Joan ^a   Moleón, Marcos ^b   Palma, Luis ^c   Sanchez Zapata, Jose Antonio ^d   Pradel, Roger ^e   Carrete, Martina ^f   Gil Sánchez, Jose María ^g   Beja, Pedro ^c   Balbontín, Javier ^h   Vincent Martin, Nicolas ⁱ   Ravayrol, Alain ^j   Benítez, Jose Ramón ^k   Arroyo, Bernardo ^l   Fernández, Carmelo ^l   Ferreiro, Ernesto ^m   García, Javier ⁿ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^g JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

ⁱ Ecomusée de la Crau ^*  (France)

^j La Salsepareille   (France)

^k Colectivo Ornitológico Cigüeña Negra ^*  (Spain)

^l Bioma TBC SLL ^*  (Spain)

^m BIOMA TBC   (Spain)

ⁿ Fundación Tierra Ibérica   (Spain)

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Author keywords

Bird predator; Birds of prey; Dispersal; Hieraaetus fasciatus; Metapopulation; Model uncertainty; Parameter uncertainty; Population viability analysis; Raptors; Source sink models; Spatially structured population; Stochastic population dynamics

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FERTILITY; GROWTH RATE; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDATOR; RAPTOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FRANCE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; PORTUGAL; SPAIN; WESTERN EUROPE;

AQUILA; AVES; HIERAAETUS FASCIATUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 84878575572     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1248.1     Document Type: Article

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