Is growing tourist activity affecting the distribution or number of breeding pairs in a small colony of the Eleonora's Falcon?;Está afectando la actividad turística creciente a la distribución o al número de parejas reproductoras de una pequen̄a colonia de halcón de Eleonora?

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 47-51

  Martínez Abrain, Alejandro ^a,b   Oro, D ^b   Ferris V ^c   Belenguer, R ^c  

^a CPEMN Conselleria de Medio Ambiente   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^c Generalitat Valenciana   (Spain)

Author keywords

Columbretes; Conservation; Eleonora's Falcon; Human disturbance; Navigation tourism; Western Mediterranean

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; RAPTOR; TOURISM;

CASTELLON; COLUMBRETES; COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 1842762212     PISSN: 1578665X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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