Linking territory quality and reproductive success in the Red-billed Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrochorax: implications for conservation management of an endangered population

Ibis

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 352-364

  Kerbiriou, Christian ^a,b   Gourmelon, Françoise ^c   Jiguet, Frederic ^b   Le Viol, Isabelle ^b   Bioret, Frederic ^c   Julliard, Romain ^b  

^a Ctr d'Etud du Milieu d'Ouessant   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT; HABITAT SELECTION; LANDSCAPE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

AVES; PYRRHOCORAX;

EID: 33645873261     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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