Extensive predator persecution caused by population crash in a game species: The case of red kites and rabbits in Spain

Biological Conservation

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 181-188

  Villafuerte, Rafael ^a   Viñuela, Javier ^b   Blanco, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b Soc Española de Ornitologia ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Illegal persecution; Milvus milvus; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Rabbit haemorrhagic disease; Spain

Indexed keywords

GAME SPECIES; PERSECUTION; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR;

SPAIN;

MILVIS MILVIS; MILVUS MILVUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PRYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0032080602     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(97)00094-3     Document Type: Article

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