The causes and consequences of population declines of two boreal forest species:the case of the willow tit ( Parus montanus ) and the Siberian flying squirrel ( Pteromys volans )

• Main Author: Lampila, S. (Satu)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oulu 2009
• Subjects: demography; local recruitment; mark-recapture; microsatellite; survival; Parus; Northern Finland
• Online Access: http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514290718

Abstract I used individual-based capture-mark-recapture data and genetic markers to gain understanding of the demographic and genetic processes operating in small and declining populations of two different species, the willow tit Parus montanus and the Siberian flying squirrel Pteromys volans. Both...