Intercolony movement of pre-breeding seabirds over oceanic scales: Implications of cryptic age-classes for conservation and metapopulation dynamics

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 160-168

  Bicknell, Anthony W J ^a   Knight, Mairi E ^b   Bilton, David T ^b   Campbell, Maria ^c   Reid, James B ^d   Newton, Jason ^e   Votier, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d JOINT NATURE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE   (United Kingdom)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Extinction risk; Leach's storm petrel; Metapopulation; Predation; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; COLONY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; OCEAN; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

AVES; HYDROBATINAE; OCEANODROMA LEUCORHOA;

EID: 84891837053     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12137     Document Type: Article

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