Predictors of specialist avifaunal decline in coastal marshes

Conservation Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 172-182

  Correll, Maureen D ^a   Wiest, Whitney A ^b   Hodgman, Thomas P ^c   Shriver, W Gregory ^b   Elphick, Chris S ^d   McGill, Brian J ^a   O'Brien, Kathleen M ^e   Olsen, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c MAINE DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

agentes estresantes m ltiples; Ammodramus caudacutus; conservaci n; conservation; marismas; multiple stressors; population trends; resilience; Saltmarsh Sparrow; tendencias poblacionales; tidal marsh

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; COLONIAL ORGANISM; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXTREME EVENT; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDICTION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SPECIALIST;

AMMODRAMUS; AMMODRAMUS CAUDACUTUS; AMMODRAMUS MARITIMUS; AVES; PASSERIDAE; RALLUS; TRINGA;

ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOODING; HUMAN; SPARROW; WATER FLOW; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FLOODS; HUMANS; SPARROWS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WETLANDS;

EID: 84982242325     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12797     Document Type: Article

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