Is nest-site availability limiting Lesser Kestrel populations? A multiple scale approach

Ibis

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 657-666

  Franco, Aldina M A ^a,c   Marques, João T ^b   Sutherland, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL ORGANISM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; NEST SITE; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; FALCONIDAE;

EID: 33745189386     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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