Estimating the abundance and hatching success of breeding curlew numenius arquata using survey data

Bird Study

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-51

  Grant, Murray C ^a   Lodge, Chris ^b   Moore, Niall ^c   Easton, Jon ^b   Orsman, Chris ^d   Smith, Malcolm ^a  

^a RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^b CSL ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d Ashfield   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; HATCHING; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SHOREBIRD;

NUMENIUS ARQUATA;

EID: 0034162796     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650009461159     Document Type: Article

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