Avifaunal changes in the Indian Thar Desert

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 687-703

  Rahmani, Asad R ^a   Soni, R G ^b  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Chf Conservator of Forests (Wildl)   (India)

Author keywords

Changes in avifauna; India; Irrigation canal; Thar Desert

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION; IRRIGATION CANAL;

INDIA; RAJASTHAN; THAR DESERT;

ANIMALIA; ARDOETIS; ARDOETIS NIGRICEPS; AVES; CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA; GALLIFORMES; GRUS GRUS; GRUS VIRGO; SAXICOLA MACRORHYNCHA;

EID: 0030745757     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.1996.0242     Document Type: Article

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