Indian vultures: Victims of an infectious disease epidemic?

Animal Conservation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 189-197

  Cunningham, Andrew A ^a   Prakash, V ^b   Pain, D ^c   Ghalsasi, G R ^d   Wells, G A H ^e   Kolte, G N ^d   Nighot, P ^d   Goudar, M S ^d   Kshirsagar, S ^d   Rahmani, A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY   (India)

^c RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d India Poultry Diagn and Res Centre   (India)

^e VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; NESTING SUCCESS; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

AVES; GYPS BENGALENSIS; GYPS INDICUS;

EID: 20044380534     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S136794300300324X     Document Type: Article

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