Using models of bird abundance to predict the impact of current land-use and conservation policies in the flow country of Caithness and Sutherland, northern Scotland

Biological Conservation

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-77

  Lavers, Christopher P ^a   Haines Young, Roy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dunlin; Flow country; Peat extraction; SSSI

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION POLICY; DUNLIN; HABITAT PREFERENCE; LAND-USE IMPACT; MAN-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; MOORLAND; PEAT EXTRACTION; POLICY EFFECT; SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST; SSSI;

UK, SCOTLAND, CAITHNESS AND SUTHERLAND, FLOW COUNTRY; UK, SCOTLAND, HIGHLAND, FLOW COUNTRY;

AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 0029669436     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-3207(95)00035-6     Document Type: Article

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