| post-fledging survival of northern goshawks: the importance of prey abundance, weather, and dispersal. | effective wildlife conservation strategies require an understanding of how fluctuating environmental conditions affect sensitive life stages. as part of a long-term study, we examined post-fledging and post-independence survival of 89 radio-marked juvenile northern goshawks (accipiter gentilis) produced from 48 nests in northern arizona, usa, during 1998-2001. information-theoretic methods were used to examine within- and among-year variation in survival relative to environmental (prey abundance ... | 2006 | 16705989 |