Habitat, human pressure, and social behavior: Partialling out factors affecting large-scale territory extinction in an endangered vulture

Biological Conservation

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-154

  Carrete, Martina ^a   Grande, Juan M ^a   Tella, José L ^a   Sánchez Zapata, José A ^b   Donázar, José A ^a   Díaz Delgado, Ricardo ^a   Romo, Alfredo ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conservation behavior; Deviance and hierarchical partitioning; Extinction; Habitat suitability; Neophron percnopterus; Poisoning

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AUTOCORRELATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EXTINCTION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; RAPTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAVENGER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

NEOPHRON PERCNOPTERUS;

EID: 33846557395     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.11.025     Document Type: Article

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