Incidental nest predation and lark conservation in an Iberian semiarid shrubsteppe;Depredacion incidental de los nidos y la conservacion de las alondras Ibericas en los arbustos esteparios

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 881-887

  Yanes, Miguel ^a   Suárez, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALAUDIDAE; AVES; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; VULPES VULPES;

LARK; NEST PREDATION;

SPAIN, LAS AMOLADERAS BIRD RESERVE;

EID: 0030474684     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10030881.x     Document Type: Article

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