Conservation challenges of a sink: The viability of an isolated population of the Snowy Plover

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 327-341

  Eberhart Phillips, Luke J ^a,b   Colwell, Mark A ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; IMMIGRATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; WADER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS;

EID: 84911407846     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270913000506     Document Type: Article

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