Relationships between home-range size, sex and season with reference to the mating system of the Houbara Bustard Chlamydotis undulata undulata

Ibis

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 314-322

  Hingrat, Yves ^a,b   Jalme, Michel Saint ^b   Ysnel, Frédéric ^c   Lacroix, Fredéric ^a   Seabury, John ^a   Rautureau, Pierrick ^a  

^a Department of Ecology   (Morocco)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY; STEPPE;

AFRICA; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

AVES; CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA; CHLAMYDOTIS UNDULATA UNDULATA;

EID: 2042423950     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2004.00263.x     Document Type: Article

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