Use of the Drana lagoon (Evros Delta, Greece) by threatened colonially nesting waterbirds and its possible restoration

Biological Conservation

Volumn 81, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 113-120

  Goutner, Vassilis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

breeding habitat; Colonial waterbirds; Drana lagoon; Evros Delta and restoration

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; BREEDING SITES; ENDANGERED BIRD; HABITAT RESTORATION; HABITAT USE; LAGOON; LAGOONS; NESTING HABITAT;

GREECE, EVROS DELTA, DRANA LAGOON;

AVES; GELOCHELIDON NILOTICA; GLAREOLA PRATINCOLA; HIRUNDO; LARUS MELANOCEPHALUS; RECURVIROSTRA AVOSETTA; STERNA ALBIFRONS; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA NILOTICA;

EID: 0030619234     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(96)00051-1     Document Type: Article

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