The effects of the 1989/1990 drought on the colonial waterbirds nesting at Lake Mikri Prespa, Greece, with special emphasis on pelicans

Waterbirds

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL.1, 1996, Pages 207-218

  Catsadorakis, Giorgos ^a   Malakou, Myrsini ^a   Crivelli, Alain J ^b  

^a Prespa ^*  (Greece)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

Colonial waterbirds; Cormorants; Drought effects; Herons; Lake Prespa; Nest site selection; Pelicans; Predation rates

Indexed keywords

ARDEIDAE; PELECANIDAE; PELECANUS CRISPUS; PELECANUS ONOCROTALUS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX PYGMEUS;

EID: 0000870063     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521964     Document Type: Article

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