Great bustards Otis tarda in Morocco: Status in spring 1999 and evidence of a decline in recent decades

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Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 141-145

  Alonso, Juan C ^a   Lane, Simon J ^a,b   Dawson, Robert ^c   Idaghdour, Youssef ^c  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c Intl Found Conserv Devmt Wildl   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Conservation; Extinction risk; Great bustard; Morocco; Otis tarda; Population trends; Status

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CENSUS; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION RISK; POPULATION DECLINE;

(NORTHWEST); MOROCCO;

EID: 0034055217     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3008.2000.00106.x     Document Type: Article

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