Habitat selection, activity peaks and strategies to avoid road mortality by the little owl Athene noctua: A new methodology on owls research

Alauda

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-60

  Fajardo, Iñigo ^a   Pividal, Virginia ^a   Trigo, Mario ^a   Jiménez, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

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