The decline of Cantabrian capercaillie: How much does habitat configuration matter?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 190-200

  Quevedo, Mario ^a   Bañuelos, María José ^a   Obeso, José Ramón ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Grouse; Logistic model; Population decline; Spatial scale; Tetrao urogallus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONNECTIVITY; FRAGMENTATION; GAMEBIRD; GIS; HABITAT LOSS; POPULATION DECLINE;

PHASIANIDAE; TETRAO UROGALLUS;

EID: 27644553900     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.07.019     Document Type: Article

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