Estimating the size of little grebe (tachybaptus ruficollis) breeding populations

Ardeola

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 157-161

  Gutiérrez, Ricard ^a,b   Figuerola, Jordi ^a,b  

^a Reserves Naturals Delta Llobregat   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breeding population; Census biases; Census techniques; Europe; Little grebe; Ne spain; Population size

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244493064     PISSN: 05707358     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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