Conflicts between Lesser Kestrel conservation and European agricultural policies as identified by habitat use analyses

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 593-604

  Tella, José L ^a,b   Forero, Manuela G ^a,b   Hiraldo, Fernando ^a   Donázar, José A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HABITAT USE; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LESSER KESTREL; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

SPAIN, ARAGON, LOS MONEGROS;

AVES; FALCO NAUMANNI; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031861299     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96288.x     Document Type: Article

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