The importance of spatial scales in long-term monitoring of colonial Charadriiformes in Southern France

Waterbirds

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 330-338

  Sadoul, Nicolas ^a  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

Author keywords

Colonial Charadriiformes; Colony dynamics; Landscape dynamics; Monitoring; Salinas; Spatial scales

Indexed keywords

AVES; CHARADRIIFORMES;

MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL SCALE; WATERBIRD;

FRANCE, CAMARGUE;

EID: 0031395542     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521701     Document Type: Article

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