Climate, social factors and research disturbance influence population dynamics in a declining sociable weaver metapopulation

Oecologia

Volumn 174, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 413-425

  Altwegg, Res ^a,b   Doutrelant, Claire ^c   Anderson, Mark D ^d   Spottiswoode, Claire N ^b,e   Covas, Rita ^b,f,g  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d BirdLife South Africa   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^g UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Capture mark recapture; Colonial bird; Environmental stochasticity; Metapopulation model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CLIMATE EFFECT; COLONY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; METAPOPULATION; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; RAINFALL; SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

RAIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; FEMALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84892842280     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2768-7     Document Type: Article

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