Are timber harvesting and conservation of nest sites of forest-dwelling raptors always mutually exclusive?

Animal Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 443-450

  Lõhmus, Asko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; NEST SITE; RAPTOR; STAND STRUCTURE; TIMBER HARVESTING;

BALTIC STATES; ESTONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; ACCIPITER NISUS; AQUILA POMARINA; BUTEO BUTEO; PERNIS APIVORUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 31544433093     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943005002349     Document Type: Article

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