How to manage human-induced mortality in the Eagle Owl Bubo bubo

Bird Conservation International

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 265-278

  Martínez, Jose A ^a   Martínez, José E ^b   Mañosa, Santi ^c   Zuberogoitia, Iñigo ^d   Calvo, José F ^b  

^a Universidad de Murcia ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Estudios Medioambientales Icarus Sl   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MORTALITY RISK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BUBO BUBO; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 33746604874     PISSN: 09592709     EISSN: 14740001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0959270906000402     Document Type: Review

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