Strategies for land-bird conservation on Mauritius

Conservation Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 169-176

  Safford, R J ^a,c   Jones, C G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b MAURITIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Mauritius)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CONSERVATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT;

MAURITIUS;

EID: 0031966888     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1998.96177.x     Document Type: Article

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